Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Following a dry summer, gardeners will be even keener than usual to lavish composts, manures and other bulky organic matter on their garden to feed soil and plants and to boost moisture-holding ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Unless you work in agriculture, you probably don’t think much about the soil. There’s a movement to change that. It’s called “Save Soil” and volunteers believe it’s key to ...

Building a growing garden can be a rewarding and satisfying experience, but its challenges include soil erosion. This natural process, which strips the top fertile layer away, can leave gardens ...

The city of Avon will have another day to celebrate the environment. Avon Mayor Bryan Jensen and Avon City Council officially have proclaimed that March 21 will be Save Soil Day in the city. Avon now ...

It can be hard to resist on a sunny spring day, but don’t start digging in the garden too soon. “You can prevent a lot of problems from compacted soil if you wait a while,” said Spencer Campbell, ...

Small seedlings grow in the newly cultivated soil. Italy. Europe. (Photo by: Daniele Orsi/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) There is a rapidly accelerating global call to protect ...

Conservationists in England are collecting cores of soil from an ancient woodland… so they can transplant them into a newly established site. The goal is to reintroduce missing fungi species in the ...

The risks associated with climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity are significant global problems. The interconnected nature of these problems is increasingly recognized, and at COP28 ...