Organic and synthetic fertilizers are the most common way to add nutrients to the soil, but animal manure is good too, if you can find and transport it. But unless applied properly, it can kill edible ...

Cody Wood wanted to be a sheep rancher but found the career hard to break into without money or land, two things the Junction City native didn't have. Then an idea came to him when he saw a California ...

How did people manage to garden a century ago before megastores? They couldn't just run down to the store and pick up a bag of Miracle-Gro. They had to do it the old-fashioned, organic way: with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The relationships and linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes are critical issues in ecology. Manure removal is an ecosystem ...

We have heavy clay soil and that's the reason I'm digging some pale looking stuff in. It's called gypsum and it helps break up the soil. But this is only one of the many ingredients to make soil ...

An expanding charity initiative is helping African agricultural entrepreneurs one at a time. The Guardian Project Foundation’s initiative: The Shit Starts Here (SSH) works as a pay-it-forward scheme ...