sustainable-agriculture

Researchers developed an eco-friendly composite hydrogel that delivers fungicide more e...

Understanding how plants recruit helpful soil microbes could lead to farming practices that use f...

It means future crops could be bred to feed themselves more efficiently from the soil, potentiall...

Fusarium wilt can silently kill your tomato plants from the roots up, and these naturally-made pa...

Beneficial microbes already living inside the plants in your garden and grocery store could soon ...

The tomatoes and peppers in your garden are already releasing invisible chemical signals that sum...

The tomatoes and wheat in your grocery store may soon be protected not by synthetic chemicals, bu...

Half the chemical fertilizer going into wheat fields means less nitrogen runoff polluting the str...

The wheat flour in your bread likely contains less zinc than it should — these natural soil bacte...

Gardeners in dry climates spend enormous effort keeping soil from cracking between waterings; thi...

Way farmers till the soil in fields near you directly affects the carbon in the air, the health o...

When you swap a conventional fungicide in your sprayer for a Trichoderma-based biopesticide, you'...

Plants in your garden — like aloe vera — may hold the key to reducing livestock's contribution to...

It could lead to a safe, natural spray or soil treatment that helps your garden cucumbers grow st...

It could lead to more precise, eco-friendly ways to protect crops and boost plant health — meanin...

If you compost or fertilize a kitchen garden, black soldier fly frass could let you feed your pla...

The beans, lentils, and peas you grow or eat could become far more resilient to drought and poor ...

The tomatoes and lettuce in your garden are quietly negotiating with billions of soil microbes ri...

Iron-deficient alkaline soils cover vast stretches of farmland worldwide, and this discovery coul...

Tomatoes, wheat, and other crops you eat could soon be grown with less pesticide and more resilie...

Dusting your vegetable garden with food-grade kaolin clay could do double duty: physically repell...

It points toward a simple irrigation upgrade — adding tiny gas bubbles to water — that could make...

Every tree in your backyard forest patch, every native wildflower you plant, and most vegetables ...

The corn in your grocery store could one day be grown with far less synthetic fertilizer because ...

Understanding how plants naturally recruit helpful soil microbes could lead to smarter farming pr...

Fusarium fungus threatens the wheat, corn, and strawberries in your grocery store — and the garde...

Soil beneath your vegetable garden is teeming with microscopic allies that could soon be the key ...

The spray applied to your grocery store strawberries or backyard tomatoes could soon be made from...

The bag of 'beneficial bacteria' soil amendments at your garden center doesn't just feed your tom...

Fruits, vegetables, and grains grown near you could soon require far fewer chemical fungicides, b...

If you've ever tried growing moringa in a pot with tap water that leaves white crusty rings, you'...

Heavy metals like lead and cadmium quietly accumulate in vegetable gardens near roads, old indust...

Fruit scraps destined for the compost bin could become a cheap, natural drought-proofing treatmen...

The wheat in your bread could soon be grown with far fewer chemical fertilizers — a soil bacteriu...

Spider mites and other pest mites can silently devastate your tomatoes, strawberries, and housepl...

If you grow mustard greens, arugula, or any brassica that you let go to seed, the small native be...

The vegetables in your garden depend on billions of soil microbes to break down nutrients into fo...

Vegetables and grains you eat are grown in soils increasingly laced with pesticide residues and p...

Every shovelful of soil in your garden hosts a hidden microbial community that your plants are ac...

Rotating tobacco with corn while pulling back on fertilizer rebuilds the hidden fungal networks i...

Every loaf of bread you bake or buy depends on wheat surviving a gauntlet of fungal diseases that...

If you garden in a hot, dry climate, a compostable gel made from kitchen scraps could hold water ...

The soil in a healthy garden is alive with fungi like this one, quietly attacking the molds and r...

Rice paddies are one of the largest human-managed sources of greenhouse gas on Earth, and smarter...

Mixing biochar into your garden beds doesn't just feed your plants — it locks carbon into the soi...

The soil in your garden already hosts billions of microbes working together, and scientists are n...

Every seed you sow carries its own microbial community, and centuries of breeding for yield and t...

If you've ever over-fertilized a tomato plant out of anxiety, this points to a future where a sim...

Growing beans or tomatoes in depleted backyard soil could soon mean one application of a biochar-...

Wild rice growing along riverbanks and wetland edges has spent millennia perfecting a hidden part...

The tea in your morning cup could become scarcer and more expensive as climate change stresses te...

Pig farm runoff is one of the leading causes of algae blooms that choke lakes and rivers, and thi...

Fungi quietly colonizing the stems and leaves of your garden plants may already be helping fend o...

Sandy garden beds that drain too fast and starve plants of nutrients can be transformed with mola...

If you've ever tried growing peppers in the same pot or bed year after year and noticed the plant...

Vegetables grown in soils near industrial areas or heavily fertilized fields can quietly accumula...

The potato in your garden doesn't decide to form tubers by accident — a tiny RNA molecule travels...

Compost you dig into your vegetable beds doesn't just feed your plants — it also accelerates the ...

Same seeds you plant in your garden are at the frontier of new technologies that could one day pr...

If you grow legumes like beans or peas, the right soil bacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen dire...

If you've ever tried growing tomatoes near a coastal garden or in soil that's been irrigated for ...

Sprinkling a packet of microbial inoculant into your garden bed before planting beans or tomatoes...

Sprinkling a fungal inoculant in your vegetable bed could replace a spritz of chemical fungicide ...

It points toward farming methods that could grow more food with fewer chemical inputs, meaning cl...

Potato plants you grow have an invisible social life underground—and tweaking one gene could let ...

Coating seeds with helpful bacteria instead of synthetic fertilizers is a practical path toward f...

The vegetables and grains at your grocery store increasingly come from soils turning salty due to...

The invisible film of bacteria and fungi coating your tomato leaves may be as important as any sp...

Sprinkle the right bacteria near your vegetable roots and you may be able to crowd out soil patho...

Pesticides sprayed on the crops you eat don't just disappear — they linger in soil, affect plant ...

If you compost kitchen scraps or garden waste, this shows that gently 'cooking' plant leftovers i...

Fusarium mold silently rots seeds in your vegetable garden before they ever sprout, and these nat...

Tucking a pinch of this gel into a container or raised bed before a hot stretch could keep roots ...

Pyrene quietly accumulates in garden and farm soil from car exhaust, wood smoke, and industrial f...

Farmers growing the wheat in your bread loaf may soon spray a trace-mineral mist instead of heavy...

The bacteria and fungi coating your garden's roots are already working overtime to pull iron and ...

Every time you skip synthetic fertilizer on your garden beans and let them fix their own nitrogen...

A plant most pond-keepers wage war against turns out to be one of nature's most effective water p...

Bacteria living in legume roots do the invisible work of turning air into plant food, potentially...

Quinoa's ability to grow on salty, drought-prone land could soon give smallholder farmers in some...

Salt-damaged soil is quietly spreading across farmland worldwide, and turning your city's food wa...

Cold-hardy soil bacteria pulled from fermentation waste could one day replace chemical fertilizer...

The beans and grasses that feed millions of people in tropical regions can grow without synthetic...

Tomatoes grown in backyard gardens and small farms across Africa are under threat from a fungal d...

Farmers and gardeners already use Trichoderma-based products to fight root rot and dampen-off dis...

Bananas are one of the world's most consumed fruits, and new discoveries about their biology coul...

If you use composted manure to feed your vegetable beds, this research shows the composting proce...

Compost made from animal waste has long been a gardener's staple, but processing that waste with ...

The same nitrogen-fixing bacteria that make soybean fields self-fertilizing can be harnessed in h...

Nano-scale fertilizers delivering zinc and phosphorus directly to plant roots could one day mean ...

Compost and manure alternatives are worth watching closely, and this study shows industrial organ...

Soybeans grown with better antioxidant profiles and richer fatty acids like linoleic acid end up ...

Every time you skip a synthetic fungicide on your tomatoes or squash, you're betting on something...

The pasta wheat grown on your dinner plate depends on roots that can only go where the soil lets ...

Chickpeas grown in your garden or in farmers' fields could soon need a fraction of the phosphorus...

If a rock-based soil amendment that costs nothing to mine and has been used for thousands of year...

Ash scattered around garden beds, crop rotation, neem spray, and chili deterrents — techniques yo...

Every handful of compost you dig into your garden beds is doing the same work described here — fe...

If you've ever worried about lead lurking in urban garden soil, this shows a living, low-cost fix...

Every bag of fertilizer you pour on your garden represents mined phosphorus, a finite resource we...

The banana peels and carrot tops you toss in the compost could be quietly solving one of fashion'...

Phosphorus fertilizer runoff from crop fields already clouds rivers and feeds the algae blooms ch...

If you compost or brew your own liquid fertilizer, this shows a cheap charcoal-based trick that s...

If you've ever composted scraps to feed your garden, this shows how a food-processing byproduct c...

The dense mat of microbes touching a plant's roots, not just the soil nearby, may be the real lev...

If you garden in sandy soil that drains fast and eats through fertilizer, this research shows exa...

If you grow chickpeas or peas in your garden and have battled the wilting, yellowing collapse tha...

How you work your soil before planting determines whether plant roots can push deep to find water...

Bacteria like this one are what allow clover and other legumes in your garden to pull free nitrog...

If you've ever wondered why lawn fertilizer needs reapplying so often or worried about runoff fee...

If you grow wheat, grains, or any garden crop in heavy clay soil, this shows how a simple microbi...

If you grow vegetables in soil you suspect might carry old lead paint chips or industrial residue...

If you grow grapes on a backyard arbor, this points to seaweed extract and simple bunch-thinning ...

The compost pile or garden soil under your feet is teeming with microbes whose combinations could...

If you garden in poor, rocky, or mountain soil, this shows how the right soil microbes can unlock...

The compost or manure-based fertilizer you might spread on your vegetable beds or roses could soo...

If you've ever worried about heavy metals building up in soil from years of fertilizer use, this ...

Compost made from crop straw could replace synthetic fertilizer on farms near you, and the microb...

The clover and ryegrass growing in that grazed paddock down the road are being redesigned with mo...

Textile and industrial dye pollution contaminates rivers and groundwater that irrigate gardens an...

The organic vegetables you grow or buy carry hidden labor stories — understanding how large farms...

Antibiotic runoff from farms soaks into the soil and waterways you use to grow food, disrupting t...

Farmers in chemically intensive regions are already turning to plants that naturally suppress pes...

Every whole chicken or egg carton in your kitchen passed through a system where antibiotic-resist...

The manure smell drifting from a nearby farm into your neighborhood or garden on a hot day is dri...