James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker ...

Slopes greater than ten percent are better suited to other practices, like terracing.

When you test more than 200,000 soil samples in a year, you not only learn something about how Arkansans grow crops, gardens ...

Dubbed the Death Row Granny, Velma Barfield ... For his final meal, Smith initially requested a lump of rhaeakunda dirt, which was believed to be used in voodoo rituals that he thought might ...

Unlike the rolling hills of loose dirt on the tilled field, Aeschliman's field looks more like a shag rug, with its rows of dead wheat stubble. He reached down into the dirt and pulled out a ...

Today, 27 years after the initial land purchase, the soil has been reborn. Tillage is out. Cover crops are in. She reaches between remarkably clean rows for a handful of blackland prairie soil and ...

The tool pushes out the packed soil blocks into neat rows, like an old-fashioned ice cube tray. "You don't have to use as much plastic," Donna Kolojeskie says. A retiree, she's gardened her whole ...