The glaciers in Glacier National Park are melting. Will the park still be worth visiting and preserving once they're gone? I love...

Although Aldo Leopold feared they were going extinct, sandhill cranes are now a common sight in rural Michigan. I heard them first—that...

This graph implies that it's impossible to feed the world with organic farming. But what data is it really based on? “Without the...

The Haber-Bosch process of fixing nitrogen produces a lot of fertilizer--but its first application was for weapons. Cut open one of the...

Biological nitrogen fixation fed the world until the end of the nineteenth century. What changed? Is it possible to feed the world’s...

One of the things that intrigues me most about the anti-organic rhetoric used by scientists is how unscientific and emotional it usually ...

There’s a big difference between graduate and undergraduate college classes. In most undergraduate classes, you sit and listen to a...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

I loved science when I was a kid—especially biology. I loved learning more about nature, going out in the woods to look at plants and...

Six years after my failed pot fertility experiment at OSU, it happened again. The instructor for my Soil Microbiology class at the...

Fresh out of my first year of agronomy classes, I was excited to do my first internship at an organically managed CSA. My job at the...

Tillage is bad. That’s the message I was getting in all of my agronomy classes at Ohio State. No-till farming was the most...