Discover how to evaluate soil structure through field observations and lab tests to improve your farm's soil health and productivity.

Welcome to our weekly podcast with longtime Anchorage Daily News garden writer and author Jeff Lowenfels and co-host Jonathan White. It’s a companion to Jeff’s weekly ADN gardening columns and his ...

Soils can contain large amounts of microbial biomass, including fungi, protists, viruses, bacteria and archaea. Most of these taxa currently remain undescribed, and have physiological and ecological ...

Every gardener wants the best soil for their garden. How do you know if your soil is "good"? What do you add to make it good? When you go to a plant nursery or the gardening section of a big box store ...

With warmer weather often comes ‘Spring Fever.’ Home gardeners hit hard with this condition might often be tempted to rush to do their spring tilling when the ground is wet. Don’t make this mistake as ...

With the floodwaters from the intentional breach of the Birds Point levee come changes in the soil structure that will take farmers years to overcome, according to agriculture experts. At the request ...