These easy-to-grow cover crops protect bare beds through winter and add organic matter to your soil.

Winter conditions can make soil compact, eroded, or nutrient-poor. Growing this unassuming member of the legume family will help you avoid these gardening woes.

Gardeners clearing beds this October often wonder what comes next. Leaving soil exposed invites nutrient loss, compaction, and weeds. Cover crops offer a practical alternative that works for any home ...

Macauley Kincaid reconnects a hood to part of his mill Aug. 7 at his family farm in Jasper, Mo. Kincaid is the second generation in his family to farm crops for seed production. He still uses the same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sergiy Akhundov / Getty Images Before you put your garden to bed, consider giving it a winter blanket—aka, a cover crop. Sowed in ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...

No matter the type of farm, there’s an advantage to planting soil-feeding cover crops ahead of fall and winter. The assistance provided depends on the crops you plant. But there is definitely one out ...

Conservation methods can help rejuvenate farmland, but the startup cost and uncertain results mean a risk many farmers still aren't willing to take. The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative ...

The conventional way that gardeners solve bad-soil trouble is by adding organic matter such as compost, leaves, grass clippings, and/or rotted manure – or bypassing in-ground planting altogether with ...

Cover crops were a long way from being “cool” when University of Nebraska Extension educator Gary Lesoing and others at the university began studying the impact of cover crops on soil health, namely ...

To maintain soil that produces successful crops, it helps to give it a rest now and then.That's what cover crops are all about. They prevent erosion, retain moisture, suppress weeds, reduce compaction ...

A version of this story first appeared on Missouri’s KBIA. Regenerative agriculture methods, such as cover crops, are one way farmers try to improve the health of their overworked soil. But adopting ...