Spring is a good time to “dress up” your garden and give it a uniform look by mulching your flower beds, and around your trees and shrubs.

Many gardeners use transplants to get earlier vegetable harvests. Transplants allow the gardener to space the plants perfectly, so you don’t have to “thin” like you would if you direct sowed vegetable ...

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts ...

Starting a garden can be overwhelming at the best of times — there are considerations for the unruly weather of the PNW, ...

In this look at 10 really risky foods right now, CR shows you how to protect yourself from food poisoning from these foods ...

Walk With a Friend at Tualatin Hills Nature Park: 9 a.m. first Wednesdays and third Sundays. Take a guided walk and learn ...

Learn how to grow the most nutrient-dense vegetables by starting with healthy soil to get the nutrients needed to produce the ...

A breakthrough study by Montana State University researchers unveils an organic substance that could someday be used as a building material.

US Health Secretary and organic enthusiast Robert F. Kennedy Jr is exploited to promote “biologicals”, some of which are GMOs ...

Bark makes a good mulch for hydrangeas as it will keep moisture in the soil, smother weeds, and help improve the soil ...

Soil contamination poses escalating risks to ecosystems and public health through persistent pollutants such as heavy metals (e.g., cadmium, lead), emerging ...

Mulch is something that is applied to the soil surface. It can be organic (pine straw, bark, wood chips, leaves) or inorganic ...