The University of Minnesota Extension in Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, and Wright counties are collaborating to offer a Soils 101 course on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 at Crow River Coffee in Watertown. This ...

Healthy soil is key to growing a vigorous lawn. Good soil also reduces runoff, erosion, and leaching of surplus fertilizer, which can help your local environment. Not all soil is created equal, though ...

About this time 50 years ago, I was walking into a classroom at the University of Missouri. The class was Soils 101. This was a required course for all students in the School of Forestry. I wasn't too ...

The National Integrated Drought Information System and the National Weather Service hosted the first in a two-part series of webinars on soil moisture data and applications. The first was held Feb. 22 ...

“Feed the soil and not the plant” is the holy mantra of organic gardening. The organic movement started in the 1900s when modern-large scale agricultural practices were being adopted. Organic ...

Planting season will soon be upon us thus making it a good time to review Soils: 101. Starting with the basics is always a practical way to begin. What are the ingredients of soil? Whether confined in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We want our plants to be healthy with great flowers, foliage or fruiting — the reason we garden! What makes this all happen? It’s all about the soil. Soil ...

It's soil that slips through your fingers—loose, dry and stubbornly unproductive. Stretching across large parts of South Australia and western Victoria, sandy soils have long resisted conventional ...