We often treat soil like dirt! Sorry for the pun, but it’s true. We rarely think of all the benefits soils nearby and far away provide. From the most obvious – a place for our food to grow, building ...

Gardening in the heat of August in Central Virginia can be difficult. The weeds seem to be taking over this late in the season and the humidity can remove a gardener’s motivation to fight them.

KONA — I first heard about Margaret Krimm more than 15 years ago from a friend. She told me how Margaret had turned a one-acre plot of rocky Kona soil into a verdant landscape with fertile soil in ...

Using soil samples from your own area, your class will get up close and see what they can find inside different soils. A practical observation activity looking at soil in detail, with discussion ...