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Just because you're using a huge container or raised garden bed to plant crops doesn't mean you have to spend lots of money ...

Drill holes around the container for aeration and lift it slightly off the ground to allow drainage—simple tweaks that ...

Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi, chickpea plants grow and produce seeds in simulated lunar dirt, researchers report March 5 ...

Green-Wood Cemetery is going green on death. This week the Brooklyn burial ground announced a new option for leaving this world: composting corpses into nutrient-rich dirt. The nearly 200-year-old ...

Soil is one of our most precious resources. Ecoacoustics, or the study of environmental sounds, has been around for a century, but it has only recently been applied to understanding soils. This ...

George Adams of the North Carolina Zoo teaches us about composting. Have you ever wondered how gardeners get the best soil for their plants? George Adams, a horticulture expert at the North Carolina ...

The price of groceries has been a major talking point this year, as Americans reel from years of inflation and after U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned on promises of lowering the cost of food ...