Soil is composed of layers that actually accomplish important purposes – to just till it all up destroys those benefits. Thus, the broadfork. Working your soil with a broadfork will not allow dormant ...

This article on how to build a broadfork is excerpted from a 1980 MOTHER EARTH NEWS interview with French intensive gardening expert John Jeavons, author of “How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits ...

Reach for the wrong fork at a dinner party, and the worst that might befall you is a snooty glance. The wrong fork in the garden, on the other hand, makes for less-efficient work. A garden fork might ...

Some things are too good to be true and others, like the broadfork, only seem so. The broadfork, a simple hand gardening tool, provides amazing soil health and fertility benefits, which would be more ...