FEATURES Getting Testy While we’ve seen many improvements in our soil over the past forty years, more and better testing...

On April 20, 1945 — eighty years ago — my grandfather, Private First Class Bill Tower, was freed from a...

Glyphosate Impairs Glucose Regulation A recent study published in Scientific Reports has revealed a concerning link between environmental exposure to...

Microfarms: Organic Market Gardening on a Human Scale, by Jean-Martin Fortier and Aurélie Sécheret, and Tomatoes: A Grower’s Guide, by...

Q. Starter fertilizer can shut down the rhizophagy cycle; if you side-dress later in the season, though, would that do...

Growing Healthy Soils & Healthy Profits in Orchards. Denair, California. April 1–3. Practical and profitable implementation of regenerative and holistic...

Longtime farmer and researcher Helen Atthowe discusses the possibilities and challenges of taking the established principles of eco-agriculture and making...

FEATURES Microbial Nutrient DeliveryTwo relatively new understandings of how plants and microbes work together — rhizophagy and exclusion-zone water —...

Bt isn’t harmful to humans — Bt proteins can only exert toxicity if they are eaten and subsequently bind to...

Appreciating the Importance of Biology Thank you for the book review of The Devil’s Element by Dan Egan. I was...