I don't have the biggest garden in the world, so I'm always looking for ways to maximize my space. That's why I've been researching how to plan a season of harvests in one square yard, i.e. planting ...

Sustainability expert Chloe Lieberman prepares a new garden bed that was cleared of grass through a no-till method called ...

TAHLEQUAH – The change in season has local farmers planting fall crops, and their winter soil preparation methods are based on personal experience — plus how much work they want to do. Farmers at the ...

Wondering how and when to terminate your cover crop? Perhaps planting green is right for you. This practice involves planting your corn or soybean crop directly into a cover crop like cereal rye or ...

Most people have a garden story that ends the same way: the slugs won, or the heat hit early, or the soil just never seemed ...

Artificial methods of growing lettuce produce twice the amount of the crop as traditional field-based methods, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. The meta-analysis also found that ...

Humans have physically reconfigured half of the world’s land to grow just eight staple crops: maize (corn), soy, wheat, rice, cassava, sorghum, sweet potato and potato. They account for the vast ...

The Illinois Department of Agriculture is relaunching its I-COVER Program to help farmers adopt cover crops and improve soil ...