One hundred years after the Dust Bowl blew away topsoil from nearly 200 million acres of American farmland, farmers and ranchers are slowly entering into a new relationship with the soils beneath ...

It can be hard to resist on a sunny spring day, but don’t start digging in the garden too soon. “You can prevent a lot of problems from compacted soil if you wait a while,” said Spencer Campbell, ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Harvest is over for farmers, but that doesn't mean it's time to take a break. This is the time of year where farmers get their hands dirty, digging in to take a closer look at their ...

With the crack of dawn, somewhere, a gardener trudges into their garden. They squat down on the garden bed and start digging the soil with a shovel. For them, it’s as harmless as a cup of morning tea.

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruits. Strawberry tree is a moniker attached to two arboreal species. One of them (Arbutus unedo) is a popular ornamental tree prized for its domed canopy and ...

Soil production is the conversion of rock into small, mobile particles. This process is a rate-limiting step that controls factors as wide-ranging as the size and shape of mountains, the ...