Montana TikToker Sarah Hamelman (@pines_and_peonies) posted a video showing how she creates her own garden soil with tips she learned from reading pioneer journals. Her followers were enthusiastic ...

To begin, cut the grass in the area and cover it with cardboard or layers of newspaper to kill it. The paper will decompose ...

Now, home is in the middle of the dusty Sonoran Desert. “That’s why I have to make some from scratch,” she says, laughing. Dontsova is a soil researcher at Biosphere 2’s Landscape Evolution ...