Soil Health and Deep Plowing Under The Tuscan Sun

Soil Health and Deep Plowing Under The Tuscan Sun

Italy to many, is the birthplace of farming with a soil nomenclature system dating from 500 AD. In the mere distance of Maine to North Carolina they have all four major soil temperature groups – frigid, mesic, thermic and hyperthermic and 4-times the soil unit...
Soil health testing demands a new understanding of soils

Soil health testing demands a new understanding of soils

Soil health testing needs its own set of calibrations and guidelines in order to have its potential fully realized. This has come into focus recently with studies on how soils behave biologically. Normally, when a soil dries out, a sudden addition of rain or...