At bottom, gardening is all about dirt — its care and feeding, its microbes and fungi, bacteria and earthworms. Science has gradually recognized that the soil’s vibrant but delicate food web must be ...
HASTINGS, Neb. -- Bob Johnson began using the no-till farming method on his central Nebraska farm 10 years ago as an experiment. Today, he says it is a necessity. A drought that has lasted more than ...
Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...
It’s been a quiet revolution during the past decade — the sound of farmers not plowing their fields. In a paper on no-till farming, Philip Gersmehl, associate professor of geography at the University ...
Some of the best home gardening results come from techniques humans have embraced for centuries, sometimes millennia. TikToker Adrienne S (@essenceofadrienne) embraces the "no-till" gardening method ...
Not only does it kill everything in the soil it ruins the soil structure causing a shift in the aggregate that does not allow for proper water absorption and risks runoff, and limits the space for ...
IDAHO FALLS (AP) | This will be Gordon Gallup's 30th season of no-till planting on his 3,000-acre Ririe farm. Gallup, who grows wheat, barley and alfalfa, said using no-till methods has helped him ...
In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Changing 60 years of farming one way to try the no-till method on his fields doesn't give Marshall wheat grower Boyd Cline second thoughts, but it does give him the willies."I'm not ...
Farmers have increasingly turned to cultivating garlicat 11 unions in Chatmohar Upazila of Pabna, using the no-till farming method. Although the garlic price was relatively low last year, they have ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A focus on sustainability in agriculture was the purpose of a gathering in Wichita this week. No-till on the Plains held its 29th Annual Winter Conference. More than 300 farmers ...