Meet the Soil Food Web
The soil food web is the network of organisms living in soil ecosystems that include plants, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, plus a host of larger predatory species and shredders.
Increasing Diversity in Market Gardens with Cover Crops
Understanding Ag’s Chuck Schembre on using winter cover cropping to break the low-diversity cycle.
Planned Grazing benefits Soil Health at the Los Ranchos Agri-Nature Center
As animals are moved often, soil health, yield and quality of forage improves.
Tragedy Above and Below Ground
The severe dust storm that occurred on May 1, 2023, along Interstate 55 in Central Illinois should be a wakeup call for all farmers.
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
Anne Biklé and David Montgomery share 5 key insights from their new book, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health.
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.