Careful timing ensures crops can handle a little heat. But recently, sudden heat waves and long-lasting ones in already warm ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Whether you’re a gardener or small-scale farmer, you’ve probably been hit with advertisements, YouTube videos, and word-of-mouth stories about the next best thing to make growing plants easier. Your ...

Plants that attract these beneficial predators include vetch, alfalfa, corn, and crimson clover. Natives like elderberry, ...

Blossom end rot, a condition that results when plants don’t have access to enough calcium, is another challenge of dry ...

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...

Bees come into contact with pesticides in numerous ways. One way is direct contact with plants sprayed with pesticides, whether organic or systemic. As bees forage, they touch the pesticide-soaked ...

Tillage isn’t necessarily detrimental to a healthy rhizosphere and can even be a key part of improving soil health. However, it’s important to recognize how the type and frequency of tillage impact ...