A friend from church asked me, “Is there any cover crop to plant in the spring?” Traditionally, most home gardeners only plant cover crops in the fall. Spring plantings of cover crops will help ...

Iowa’s data for the Midwest Cover Crops Council cover crop decision tool, which was last revised in 2019, was updated to ...

Crop rotation for annual vegetables can reduce disease and pest pressure, improve soil health and boost overall crop production.

Cover crop growth is lagging in parts of the Upper Midwest. Southern Minnesota farmer Rochelle Krusemark says soil conditions remain cool and dry. “Unfortunately, with everything that was seeded last ...

Forrest Keeling Nursery supplies The Giving Grove with native trees that are used in community orchards and food forests across the country.

Fraunhofer ISE and German weather protection specialist VOEN Vöhringer are testing an agrivoltaic system that uses existing crop cover structures to support solar modules, eliminating the need for a ...

Soil building is about growing a farm under your farm and bringing it to life. It’s about making the Earth better and giving ...

There are some recipes I fall back on again and again—not because they’re fancy or complicated, but because they’re reliable, ...

Planting a diversity of crops can prove beneficial during extreme weather events. Some plants are better able to stand up to ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

An assessment of “regenerative agriculture” – which focuses on improving soils, producing food and increasing farmland ...

If you’re still clinging to a bottle of foundation that costs more than your takeout order, it might be time to make the switch to Missa M Perfect Cover BB Cream.