Q: My neighbor recently told me that the secret to his lush lawn and thriving vegetable garden is humus. What is humus, what’s it made of, and where can I get it? A: The definition of humus explains ...

Leaves swirling around in the air will settle on the forest floor and begin the process of generating more humus, the “life force” of the soil. Centre Daily Times, file I have written before on ...

THE Indore process is now fairly well known, and in the tropics it is widely used for converting all manner of plant residues into humus. A ‘factory’, consisting of a series of long, shallow pits, is ...

ON page 286 of the issue of NATURE of Feb. 15, in an article under the above title reviewing a recent lecture which was printed in full in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (Nov. 22, 1935), ...