Within the realm of soil health, there is the idea presented of "building soil health" in farming systems. But, what does soil health mean? Can you measure whether you've built soil health or not?

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 ...

Vermiculite – made from magnesium silicates – holds water and is an additive that can make your soil better. Good soil is the key to great gardens but what can you do if don’t have it? Local and ...

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, ...

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.

Erin Silva is enthusiastic about sustainable and organic cropping practices, but she emphasizes the fundamentals of building soil health. Silva is an associate professor in the plant pathology ...

When transitioning to organic gardening, the soil-building can begin. Soil health can be achieved with aeration, compost, rock minerals, sugars, microorganism products and using shredded native tree ...

When Cory Carman returned in 2003 to her family’s ranch in remote Wallowa County in eastern Oregon with a Stanford degree in public policy in hand and a stint on Capitol Hill under her belt, her ...

Students in Soil Science 100 examining wet soil at UC Davis Russell Ranch, October 2016. A teaspoon of soil teems with billions of microbes that are vital to all life on Earth. UC Davis researchers ...

Brown compost materials are the carbon-rich backbone that lets your pile heat up, break down efficiently, and ultimately supercharge your soil. By pairing these browns with nitrogen-heavy greens at ...

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 ...