BUCKWHEAT: IT’S NOT just for pancakes anymore. While pancakes are one of the finest culinary pleasures humankind has devised, buckwheat is a much more important crop than it typically receives credit ...

If you want to promote higher populations of beneficial insects, cull your buckwheat crops within 20 days of flowering. If ...

Washington State University researchers are looking for farmers with more than 20 acres to experiment with buckwheat. The crop can benefit a total farm system, growers say, but the Washington Grain ...

Eliot Coleman, whose 1989 book inspired generations of gardeners, shared the lessons he has been teaching for the past 50 ...

I’m a big fan of cover crops on the farm and in the garden. Cover crops are not harvested. Instead they’re used for other purposes, such as preventing erosion or improving soil tilth. One of my ...

You may have heard the saying, “nature abhors a vacuum.” Although it applies to many situations, farmers and gardeners have a unique understanding. They know that leaving a plot of land open ...

LANESBORO, Minn. -- Hidden behind a cornfield on a dead-end road in Fillmore County is a unique one-acre plot. Dan Bradt, Jill Sackett and Dean Thomas work to harvest cover crops in a one-acre plot in ...

ST. PAUL — Three researchers highlighted the bonuses and pitfalls of the bug-cover crop relationship during Cover Crops: Economic and Environmental Management Production Agriculture Symposium on March ...

For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for harvest. I prepare the soil for the next year ...

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In order to improve soil heath and organic matter, vegetable gardeners should aim to have actively growing plants in the garden for 10 or eleven months each year. This is desirable because organisms ...