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100-year-old Plants Cover Crops for the First Time

by Lisa Blazure. It’s often said you can’t teach old dogs new tricks. But don’t share that adage with Don Ace, 100, and Max Stoner, 80,...

You May Want to Shelve Those Undies: Dry soils are widespread this Spring

by Lisa Blazure, Stroud Water Research Center, Soil Health Coordinator The Soil Your Undies activity generally works best in the late...

The ABCs of Soil Health

by Pennsylvania NRCS Healthy soil is the foundation of productive, sustainable agriculture. Understanding how soils function is the...

The Soil Sponge: what happens when it dries out?

by Lisa Blazure, Stroud Water Research Center, Soil Health Coordinator It’s easy to appreciate healthy soils when digging a hole - the...

The Big Dig has begun! Check out these photos.

#soilyourundies #soilhealth #donttreatsoillikedirt #pasoilhealth Photo: Yuri Plowden, PA NRCS State Soil Scientist (photo by Molly Rose)...

What are cover crops and how do they help the soil?

by Lisa Blazure, Stroud Water Research Center #covercrops, #soilhealth Cover crops are typically planted in the fall and serve many...

What's Your Bottom Line?

by Sarah Nicholas, Pasa Sustainable Agriculture When Pasa Sustainable Agriculture’s soil science team goes out to a farmer’s field to...

Did You Know Your Clothes Come From a Farm?

by Rachel Mednick Higgins, All Together Now PA Have you ever considered where clothing originates? Not who designs or sews it, but where...

Healthy Soils Keep the Water Clean

by Kelly O'Neill, Chesapeake Bay Foundation #soilyourundies #donttreatyoursoillikedirt #soilhealth Did you know that disappearing undies...

There's Plastic in Our Clothes?

By Eleanor Turner, Founder of The Big Favorite #soilyourundies #donttreatyoursoilslikedirt #soilhealth There is plastic hidden in our...

What's Eating My Undies?

by Lisa Blazure, Soil Health Coordinator, Stroud Water Research Center #soilyourundies #donttreatyoursoillikedirt #soilhealth Thanks for...