Featured resources

Oct 71 min read

Featured Resource: For the Love of Soil

Love requires daily devotion and long-term commitment to a relationship. Daily devotion and long-term commitment are demonstrated through...

Apr 81 min read

Featured Resource: Agronomy Handbook 2023

Are you looking for a foundational resource to expand your knowledge base of Virginia agriculture and agronomic practices? Virginia...

Mar 252 min read

Featured Resource: Southern Cover Crops Council Website

The more we learn, the more there is to learn. The sharing of stories, experiences, and research are critical for advancing soil health...

Feb 261 min read

Featured Resource: The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil by Dale Strickler

To complement the recent 4 The Soil: A Conversation with Dale Strickler of Regenerative Wisdom on the unintended consequences of deep...

Feb 111 min read

Featured Resource: Soil, Soul, Spirituality, and Stewardship

Soil, soul, spirituality, and stewardship – Dr. Rattan Lal, Professor, Soil Science, The Ohio State University Soil is a living ecosystem...

Jan 301 min read

Featured Resource: The Alliance to Advance Climate Smart Agriculture

Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is leading a multi-faceted Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture. The...

Jan 22 min read

Featured Resource: The benefits of crop diversification: New research from Dr. Stuart Grandy and colleagues

Dr. Stuart Grandy of the University of New Hampshire’s College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and the Center of Soil Biogeochemistry...

Sep 12, 20232 min read

Featured Resource: Farms with a Future: Creating and Growing a Sustainable Farm Business by Rebecca

We desire all farms to have a vibrant, strong future because we know farming is particularly challenging and competitive. Rebecca...

Aug 29, 20232 min read

Featured Resource: Manage Weeds on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies

How does weed management and suppression fit into your soil health-building regimen? USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and...

Aug 14, 20232 min read

Featured Resource: In Search of Meadowlarks: Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with Land

How do you measure biodiversity on your farm, ranch, or in your garden? Are their species of birds or pollinators that you encourage and...

Jul 31, 20231 min read

Featured Resource: "Composting Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to School Based Composting"

Did you know that schools in t he U.S. throw away $5 million of uneaten food each school day. You could save the equivalent of 6 tons of...

Jul 16, 20231 min read

Featured Resource: Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

With more extreme heat, flooding, and drought every day, how do we adapt our agricultural systems to stay resilient to the changing...

Jun 15, 20231 min read

Featured Resource: Soil Your Undies Challenge

Is your soil healthy? Here's a BRIEF test you can do! Did you know that there are billions of microbes – bacteria, fungi, protozoa – in a...

Jun 5, 20231 min read

Featured Resource: Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations Soils Portal

As emphasized in the past two episodes of “4 The Soil: A Conversation,” soil health is important across the world and stewards are...

May 22, 20231 min read

Featured Resource:Widening the Lens on Soil Health- Creative Solutions for the Environment/Malawi

We can all benefit from occasionally widening the lens on our work and lives to see how we fit in the world and what might be missing...

Apr 24, 20231 min read

Featured Resource: Desktop Farm Day- Water Quality and Soil Conservation

Many people are one, two, or three generations removed from actual farming and food production. Therefore, people may have misperceptions...

Apr 11, 20231 min read

Featured Resource: Beneficial Soil Fungi

In our last 4 The Soil electronic newsletter, we emphasized the need to work smarter not harder by identifying your soil health-building...

Mar 14, 20231 min read

Featured Resource: Graze 300

Extending the grazing season can increase not only farm profitability by minimizing winter feeding expenses, but also enhance soil health...

Nov 23, 20221 min read

Featured Resource: Building healthy pasture soils

As winter approaches, managing pasture soils to optimize forage and feed for livestock, while minimizing soil disturbance and compaction...

Nov 9, 20221 min read

Featured Resource: National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)– Soil for Water

As the Virginia Soil Health Coalition and the 4 The Soil Awareness Initiative continues to grow in Virginia and across the Mid-Atlantic...

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