When Steve Stierwalt studied agriculture at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, soil health wasn’t commonly taught or ...

The December clearing of the Butterfly Greenway in Charlottesville left birds without shelter and food in subfreezing ...

Poodle-dog bush thrives in Southern California mountains after wildfires. It's pretty but petting it can result in a severe ...

The city this past week started another year of actively monitoring the slope, using radar scanners, groundwater data, and ...

Sale, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 5, will offer many groundcover options — good for shade, part shade, sun, or a slope ...

Potatoes are the bookend crops of the garden.  Planted in spring, their harvest is the hallmark of late summer into autumn.

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

Illinois farmers like Steve Stierwalt adopt cover crops to address soil erosion and reduce runoff pollution, protecting ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often ...

Based on their findings, the researchers noted there are practical solutions that could have prevented collapse of the embankment slope investigated in this study. Their recommendations include using ...

Homesteading — a lifestyle of small-scale agriculture, food preservation, producing minimal waste, and self-sufficiency — ...

Monday was momentous for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing although it still looked like a bridge to nowhere from the ...