Organic gardening is an approach to gardening that emphasizes the use of natural and sustainable practices to grow plants while minimizing the use of synthetic chemicals and artificial fertilizers. It ...

CORVALLIS – Adding organic matter is the best way to improve nearly all kinds of soils. If you’re unsure if your soil needs amendments, take note if it dries and cracks in summer, drains slowly or is ...

Organic growing techniques have been practiced for as long as humans have tilled the earth. Only since World War II has agriculture become dependent upon toxic synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

Before designing your garden, observe the amount of sunlight in your yard. Choose a sunny spot with easy access to a rainwater collection barrel or hose. Next, decide if you want to build raised ...

“Feed the soil and not the plant” is the holy mantra of organic gardening. The organic movement started in the 1900s when modern-large scale agricultural practices were being adopted. Organic ...

Looking for Organic Gardening at the bookstore? The magazine has been rebranded as Rodale's Organic Life with the May/June issue, which hit newsstands last week. The new bimonthly magazine will expand ...

BLACKSBURG — Morgan Moatz first built a business dedicated to the eradication of dirt from customers’ homes, but then took on a second company that has put her knee-deep in the soil. Moatz, 34, took ...

Organic Gardening — As spring in Northern California approaches, we unearth organic gardening tips and recall — like Henry David Thoreau - that "heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (CNN) -- Neighbors are welcome to help themselves at the Friends' Organic Community Garden. Begun in early 2000 on the seven-acre lawn of a grand, 1920s-era home used as a ...