Lucy M. Stitzer is the founder and editor of Dirt-To-Dinner. Its mission is to help consumers better understand how their food is grown and processed, and why this is important to them and their ...

When snow blankets the landscape, it may seem like life slows down. But beneath the surface, an entire world of activity is ...

Globally, soils contain three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere and all plants, combined. Which means that understanding how soil microbes recycle organic materials—sometimes sending CO ...

Salt, microplastics, and rising temperatures are silently degrading urban soil health, and weakening the resilience of cities ...

A massive amount of carbon is stored in the soils of our planet, and soil is a crucial reservoir of carbon that helps mitigate the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Soil could act as a ...

Soil biology is important for soil health, and the soil’s biological community encompasses all living things, including earthworms, insects, nematodes, plant roots, animals and microbes. Beneficial ...

Future missions to the Moon could see astronauts growing the first plants on the lunar surface. But, getting lunar soil to grow plants has been a tricky process. Scientists may have finally had a ...

Microbes have helped make Earth more habitable over the eons, and they could do the same on a smaller scale for the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Every grower wants bigger buds. Healthy plants. The kind of trichomes that glisten, with terpene and cannabinoid content that deliver the perfect full-spectrum high. That’s the goal, whether your ...