Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Our newest segment of The Morning Show series “Home Grown” involves checking the pH balance of the soil in your vegetable garden. During the last five weeks, we have been bringing you stories to show ...

The Lower Loup NRD recently hosted MUDFEST in Ord, and 4th graders from several schools got a chance to get a little wet and dirty, and learn about the natural world.

CHICO — When it comes to one of the most important substances in our human existence, two Chico State professors and their students are using a new exhibition to provide visitors with “the dirt” on ...

The roundtable event explored how soil-focused approaches across Government departments could provide a genuine win-win’ ...

Traditional ways of fostering soil health have never completely gone away and are on the upswing. According to recent United States Department of Agriculture data, about 37% of U.S. cropland is ...

Sixty percent of all the world's nutrients applied to fields never make it to the plants. That is an astonishing number, considering the cost of fertilizers. It is also worrisome considering that ...

Just in case home gardeners have not really considered the importance of soil temperature, Kansas State University horticulture expert Cynthia Domenghini says you should. Soil temperature, she says, ...

Biofuels are a key component of a clean energy future, and it turns out that the soil is more important than the crop. As an Earth scientist, I was pleased to see it was the soil. I shouldn’t have ...