Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Thousands of years ago, beasts of burden helped make humanity what it is today. When ...

Jesse Frost and his wife Hannah Crabtree have been farming together since 2011, when they met working as apprentices on a small organic farm in southern Kentucky. Eventually, they started their own ...

Experts weigh in on no-to-low-till farming equipment, tools, and technology that will preserve the health of your soil to maximize growth potential. Soil consists of sand, silt, and clay, which come ...

Farmers and researchers in Reidsville see the positive impacts of no-till agriculture. Tilling soil has long been thought of as a necessary step in agricultural production. A long-term study by ...

You’ve been taught that turning over your soil prepares the perfect bed for planting. It feels natural, satisfying even, to slice through the earth and watch it crumble beneath the blade. But here’s ...

Blake Vince is holding what he describes as earthworm casts from his soils. “Basically, we’re taking a septic pipe eight inches of diameter. We’re pouring liquid latex on the surface, and we’re ...

As the adoption of no-till practices has spread widely across parts of the U.S. over the past few decades, the approach has been touted as an important means of storing carbon in soil—and a key ...

Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study published in Nature Food finds. Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm ...

Thousands of years ago, beasts of burden helped make humanity what it is today. When farmers first started putting down roots, they’d plant and tend their crops by hand. With the power of oxen, they ...

No-till farming, a technique long known to save farmers time, resources and dollars, is now shown to actually add value to the land on which it’s practiced. According to a new study by North Carolina ...

Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study published in Nature Food finds. For centuries, farmers have tilled the soil in their ...