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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...

Sep 91 min read

Featured Resource: Regenerating the Ecology of Place

How does ecology play a role in our sense of being part of a community and a specific place? Let's look at the root meaning of ecology:...

Apr 231 min read

Featured Resource: Green Cover Seeds' Soil Health Resource Guide Fifth Edition

In this week’s episode of 4 The Soil: A Conversation, Dr. Elizabeth Heilman of Wichita State University uplifted the importance of...

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...

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...

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...

Sep 26, 20221 min read

Featured Resource:Taking Care of the Soil- A Soil, Conservation and Place Conversation

Robert H. Spiers Jr. is the co-owner and operator of Spiers Farm, LLC, an 1,800-acre corn, soybean, grain, and tobacco farm in Dinwiddie...

Sep 12, 20221 min read

Featured Resource: The Future-Proof Farm: Changing Mindsets in a Changing World

In thinking about the future and change, it is easy to rely on cliches like ‘the future is now’ or ‘change is inevitable’. Everyone...

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