How Alive is my Soil?
Soul Fire Farm’s guide How Alive is my Soil? presents soil testing methods that can be performed in the field by farmers, gardeners, or anyone who desires to understand and appreciate soil from a different perspective.
The Middle Rio Grande Community Soil Health Lab is Going Live
Starting Saturday, March 26th, 2022 the Middle Rio Grande Community Soil Health Lab will be open to the public for soil, water, compost testing services, and more.
The Importance of Microbes in Providing Climate Mediation
Climate solutions can only be implemented when we change our lens from an industrial, exploitive approach into a bio-system approach.
Soil and Water Don’t always Make Mud
It is strange we don’t pay much attention to our soil and water, as all of life depends on them. It begs the question why children love mud so much…
Pesticides Cause Widespread Harm to Soil Health
New study reviews pesticide impacts on soil, finds harm to soil invertebrates in 71% of cases. Herbicides and fungicides are especially detrimental to earthworms, nematodes and springtails.
New Resources on Soil Invertebrates from the Xerces Society
New handbook and webinar series focusses on the diverse, often overlooked, and yet essential major invertebrates found in temperate agricultural soils.
Plants are Cool!
As New Mexico is moving into a record-setting heat wave, the cooling effect of living plants becomes ever more evident. Learn how it works and why it’s important to keep a green cover!
The Great Work of Our Time
What is the great work of our time? What will our work be, going forward? Watch this intimate animation by author, educator & soil sponge strategist Didi Pershouse.
10 Tips for Summer Grazing Success
Practice these tips by Dr. Allen Williams of Understanding Ag routinely for a great grazing season. Bonus: you will learn more with each day you spend in the pastures with your livestock.
NMSU study finds cover crops can improve soil health
Integrating cover crops, such as legumes and grasses, into existing cropping systems can increase the biological health of soils on hot and dry semiarid lands.