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Soil has been called “the living skin of the Earth.” The effort to maintain the health of this “living skin” in Washington got a boost…

The world is green with plants. The world also has thousands of species of plant-eating insects and other organisms. Why don’t all those insects eat…

I previously covered reasons why the results of many biodiversity studies do not apply to agriculture. Here, I want to emphasize a related issue: how…

I explored opportunities to reduce environmental impact related to food preparation and food waste in previous Perspectives on Sustainability articles. However, transportation in the food…

Washington State House Bill 1543 was signed into law in 2019 by Governor Jay Inslee in an attempt to avert a complete collapse of recycling…

“Dependent on off-farm inputs…” Can it be otherwise? People inside and outside of science like to point to how nature needs no inputs, yet still…

What do you call the worm that ate Mozart? A DECOMPOSER! But for one central Washington dairy, a treatment system is using worms, not to…

Ecologists, agroecologists, and regenerative agriculture advocates are promoting biodiversity to solve many of agriculture’s problems. They often base this on evidence of the benefits of…

Manure can play a valuable role in crop production because of its ability to build soil fertility and soil health. Ironically, manure can pose a…

It used to be that livestock and crops were integrated on a single farm and manure provided an important source of fertility for crop production.…