soil

Vegetable box in the home garden. (Adobe Stock │ #359503128 - AHatmaker)
Home and Family, Horticulture, Horticulture, Outdoors

How to create a raised bed garden

Is your soil poorly drained or heavy clay? A raised-bed garden may be a helpful solution to grow your favorite vegetables. Read More

Farmer is transplanting tomato seedlings in the vegetable garden. (Adobe Stock │ #434505268 - triocean)
Home and Family, Horticulture, Horticulture, Outdoors

Transplants are ready for the garden

Man at work on the tractor with hay baler. (Photo: Adobe Stock │ #267996708 - Mirko)
Forage Crops, Hay Range Pasture

Are you baling soil?



Photo courtesy of Wilbur Ellis.

Turning to nature to boost disease control  

View from the top of an open family compost (Photo: iStock - OceanProd)

Composting at home provides free resource when done right

Close-up of cover crops growing between rows winter wheat stubble. (Photo: iStock - mvburling)

Farmers share how to keep your soil on your fields

Garden sprinkler watering grass at home backyard (Photo: iStock - ronstik)

Reducing water use in landscaping

  • By Lisa Moser │ Kansas State University Research and Extension
Agricultural spring landscape. Green soybean sprouts. Rows of early soy shoots growing in the rich dark brown soil. (Photo: iStock - Awltail)

Bean Growers Day scheduled for Aug. 20

Fed 'n Happy. (Courtesy photo.)

A biological farming solution

Eggplant (Photo: Cindy Haynes)

Planting and Growing Eggplant

  • By Aaron J. Steil │ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Closing keynote speaker, Cristine Morgan, chief scientific officer, The Soil Health Institute discussed measuring and evaluating soil health at Soil Health U, Jan. 18 in Salina, Kansas. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

Morgan explains soil health basics at Soil Health U