Celebrating Soil Builders on World Soil Day
December 5th is World Soil Day. NRDC recaps lessons learned at the Southern Soil Health Conference....
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Gleaning to Fight Hunger and Food Waste
Last week, I joined several volunteers to glean harvest from Potomac Vegetable Farms in Virginia. Lara Bryant, NRDC Gleaning is a historical practice that goes...
Crop Insurance Discount Could Encourage Cover Croppers
A 2016 cover crop survey reveals that cover crops are on the rise and profitable. The survey also shows that farmers would plant more cover crops if offered a ...
A Sexy Soil Blog for Valentine's Day
"Soil isn't sexy." I hear it all the time from my colleagues, even the soil worshippers like myself. But I don't agree, so I set out to put together some "sexy...
Soil Should Be the Foundation of Food, Water, and Energy Policy
"All roads lead back to soil," said Chef Dan Barber , keynote speaker at the Food-Water-Energy Nexus Conference (FEW) I attended last week. Soil is...
Why You Need to Add World Soil Day to Your Annual Calendar
If you don't have World Soil Day on your calendar of annual celebrations, it's time to highlight December 5th on your phone, your Google/iCloud calendar, or on...