Welcome to module one of the Building Soil Master Course, where Leah Webb describes how you can build your soil over time. She goes over the different components of soil, its chemistry, and the ...

What’s the best soil to use? Whether you’re gardening with containers, in raised beds or digging holes in the ground, you can’t go wrong with organic potting soil. With its loamy texture, ...

Wondering what soil to use for vegetable garden beds to produce big yields of veggies? We asked the pros for you.

A cold snap hits, the garden beds go quiet, and most people assume the soil is ready for hibernation. But winter is actually the perfect time to supercharge your soil so it wakes up in spring richer, ...

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends podcast, Jessi Bloom, Patricia Foreman, and Tradd Cotter discuss soil, what it’s made of, and how to improve the health of your garden and farm soil.

When Tyler Zimmerman looks across his North Dakota fields, he doesn’t see just corn, soybeans and sunflowers anymore. He sees the payoff of an ongoing experiment to build soil health—one fueled by a ...

Spring is the best time of year to plant trees. During the winter the dormant buds and roots are in a kind of holding pattern until the right growing conditions happen in the spring. Then they have ...

Healthy roots are the secret to successful plants and trees. Roots take up water and nutrients from the soil and send them to the leaves and stems. Roots, in turn, need good soil to grow in — soil ...

I live in a Burlington neighborhood where uniform, lush lawns and manicured flower beds are standard. From a distance, my yard might pass muster. But up close, it’s a mishmash of grass, violets, ...

The young soils of our island vary from ash deposits to a’a and pahoehoe lava. There are a few exceptions where volcanic materials have had the time to decompose like the Kohala Mountain region, but ...