Every year, millions suffer, and thousands lose their lives to infections that were once easily treatable with the right dose ...

Garden soil often suffers more from kindness than neglect, especially when watering habits go unchecked. Many plants decline ...

Garden beds don’t run on luck—they run on life. Beneath every thriving plant sits a bustling underground world of microbes, ...

The best harvest for tomatoes starts with providing the best soil for tomatoes. Far from glamorous and usually lacking ...

Much of the beauty—and challenge—of biology lies in its complexity. That's especially true in the microbial world, where ...

Every grower wants bigger buds. Healthy plants. The kind of trichomes that glisten, with terpene and cannabinoid content that deliver the perfect full-spectrum high. That’s the goal, whether your ...

If you need to give your tomato plants a boost this growing season but don't have fertilizer, your pantry may have something ...

Lucy M. Stitzer is the founder and editor of Dirt-To-Dinner. Its mission is to help consumers better understand how their food is grown and processed, and why this is important to them and their ...

As global agriculture struggles to feed a growing population, soils are under increasing pressure. Heavy fertilizer use has degraded soil quality, disrupted microbial ecosystems, and increased ...

Scientists have used lab-grown cyanobacteria microbes to bind loose desert sand into a thin, stable layer that wind cannot easily blow away.

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...