If you've been learning how to get your garden ready for winter, you're probably familiar with the benefits of covering ...

Composting leaves is a natural way to recycle and put back minerals and nutrients into the soil. Plus, composting saves money ...

The columnist notes some reasons for composting being so beneficial. All you need to start is to pile materials from leaves, ...

Pesticides in fruits and vegetables, mercury in tuna, heavy metals in potatoes or dark chocolate… These are just a few ...

Enhancing the humus content of soil can be achieved through several effective practices: Add Organic Matter: Introducing organic materials such as compost, leaf litter, manure, or cover crops is one ...

Plant them in the off-season and let them grow before tilling or mowing. When cover crops decompose, they add nutrients and organic material to the soil, boosting humus formation. Green manure plants ...

Dan Rawlins and his partner Chloe Meyer set themselves an ambitious target when they decided to build an off-grid house made from hempcrete and rendered with a horse manure mix, all without ever ...

To build up humus in the soil, we have to combine various strategies. As mentioned in a previous article on this series, we have to adopt a no-till philosophy. Tillage ‘burns up’ the organic content ...

This helps your plants reach as much water and many nutrients as possible for larger yields. The Fishnure Organic Humus Compost is a typical example because it has an amount of organic matter with ...

“The quality and value of manure varies massively, and it’s important not to treat them all the same,” says Zach Reilly, agronomist at Scottish Agronomy. “You’d treat a hen pen very ...