SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The key to a great garden? Look under your feet and start valuing your soil. “We treat soil like dirt, and they are not the same thing,” said noted soil scientist Steve Andrews, ...

Welcome to module one of the Building Soil Master Course, where Leah Webb describes how you can build your soil over time. She goes over the different components of soil, its chemistry, and the ...

New research explores how microbes could turn Martian soil into building material and support life systems, offering a potential path for constructing human habitats on Mars using local resources ...

Conservation practices and planning are essential to ensure productive fields and a healthy environment. Healthy soil will last for generations. Shorter term savings includes using no-till planting to ...

Volatile and extreme weather conditions have become the new normal. In one season, heavy rain waterlogs fields and flushes soil into rivers; in the next, heatwaves bake the ground hard. But, as Soil ...