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Fort Belvoir residents interested in having healthy yards or gardens can pick up free top soil from the Fort Belvoir Recycling Center, which is run by Bates Trucking Company.

Composting at home is an easy way to enrich your garden, recycle and even save money on top soil. Get started with this step-by-step home composting guide.

By: Meaghan Malinowski, MidAtlantic Farm Credit Just as it is important to test your livestock for disease, it is also in your best interest as a farmer to test your soil before fertilizing and pla…

Want to know how to fix your soil — whether it’s clay, sandy or PH-challenged? Learn about soil amendments and get other tips for healthy soil.

Of the several practices USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service recommends to improve soil health and sustainability one of the most important is to keep the soil covered.
In corn and soybean fields, the starting point is maintaining the post-harvest crop residue on the soil surface. Crop residue is plant material remaining after harvesting, including leaves, stalks, and roots.

Soil is the foundation upon which our natural
living world depends; it is otherwise known as the
dynamic material that civilization is built on (Lindbo
Kozlowski, and Robinson 2012). Soil serves diverse
functions that are critical to the survival of humanity
without the soil, life on earth is inconceivable. It
represents the critical zone of the earth where life,
water, minerals, and air intersect and interact…

For Texas farmers and ranchers, soil erosion is more than just an inconvenience — it can reduce crop yields, drive up production costs, damage water quality, and even create safety hazards for both people and animals. And while we have little control over the two main causes — wind and rain — we can take measures to minimize soil erosion and reduce its negative impact on our operations.

What is a State Soil
A state soil is a soil that has special significance to a particular state. Each state in the United States has selected a state soil, twenty of which have been legislatively established. These “Official State Soils” share the same level of distinction as official state flowers and birds. Also, representative soils have been selected for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands…

Key Messages -- 10 key messages to understanding soils
NRCS Photo Gallery -- natural resource and conservation related photos from across the United States

The Ancient Rule - “Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil” - (Anglo-Saxon Law)
“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.” - Charles E. Kellogg, USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1938
“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.” - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
“Be it deep or…

Ask anyone who has a lush garden "what's your secret", and they'll likely tell you that it's all about the soil. Soil is a living, dynamic ecosystem. Healthy

Learn how to grade, lay out and amend the soil in your rain garden to support your plants

The best soil for succulents doesn't have to be expensive. Learn what your succulents need from their soil and how to provide it. Whether you use commercial suc

Gardening is a rewarding pastime and could bring a lot of benefits.No Matter If you grow vegetables or flowers, there is a thing about raising plants that is incredibly rewarding. This article can …

It used to baffle me. “How can so many of my peers who were so ‘churchy’ and ‘involved’ in high school have just drifted away in college?” It doesn’t baffl…

There's more to topdressing than shredded wood. Learn about mulch types, costs and design considerations here

DECATUR – Where there is dirt in agriculture, there is money, but you've got to know how to read the signs.

Breathtaking symbiosis… Through respiration, soil microbes provide key benefit to plants, scientist says Just when you thought soil microbes couldn’t possibl...

Resilient investors are very attuned to the need and opportunities for investing in local, regional, and global farms, soil, and habitat regeneration.

One of the not-so-obvious impacts of construction around Bozeman is dirt, which, when left exposed at work sites, can erode into the Gallatin Valley’s streams, degrading water quality.