Sheep, contends Mike Benziger, are a vineyard manager's best friend. "They do three things with every step: eat, drop manure and till the cover crop and their manure into the soil. Their hooves are ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Occasionally I get unsolicited gifts for the garden — a load of cow manure when the cattle yards are being cleaned or a pile of wood ...

How did people manage to garden a century ago before megastores? They couldn't just run down to the store and pick up a bag of Miracle-Gro. They had to do it the old-fashioned, organic way: with ...

Madurai: Sheep penning will be beneficial for crops, especially horticultural crops, to overcome adverse drought conditions and also improve harvest, according to retired official of the Tamil Nadu ...

But now, with his new invention, he plans to double his money. Mucky business: Archie Willder, 11, from Yulecart with his invention. Picture: Zoe Phillips The contraption, entered in the junior ...

We have heavy clay soil and that's the reason I'm digging some pale looking stuff in. It's called gypsum and it helps break up the soil. But this is only one of the many ingredients to make soil ...

Materials used to bed sheep at lambing must deliver on comfort but other considerations are needed, not least protecting the ewe and her lambs from potentially harmful organisms. Straw is still the ...