Bill Kerr says that increasing the organic and microbe content of your soil is the first step to ensuring healthier crops and ...

Nera Leather Tanning asks…….What is the difference between ‘biodegrading’ and ‘composting’? The first difference is that composting provides the Earth with nutrients once the material has ...

Purple, white, pink, and even shades close to purple. Heather plants are some of the most beautiful, adding color to our ...

When you've got an outdoor space, people can sometimes overlook it. Fortunately, this easy-to-maintain plant is ideal for protection.

As autumn paints our gardens with vibrant hues, fallen leaves become a gardener's treasure trove for enriching soil and ...

One way to do your part is composting, but there are some entry barriers: space, equipment, and perhaps most notably, the smell and pests that often go along with composting. So as we wrap up our ...

The vibe isn’t death so much as what death might yield: greenery, abundance, a new purpose. Earth, a name I continue to smile at, provides what they prefer to call “transformations”: a human body is ...

and the ‘Indore Process of Humus Manufacture’ devised by Sir Albert Howard in his work in India, described in ‘The Living Soil’ (E.B. Balfour). These systems favor “hot” composting by ...

Home vegetable or flower gardeners are often unhappy with their soil quality. They routinely incorporate organic matter in the soil each fall but don't see much change in their soil texture.

The ideal soil for most plants is loam, which has a balance of sand, silt, and clay. Loam is also rich in an organic matter called humus. Dark and loose but not too loose, humus is composed of ...