Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robin Gentry /Getty Images Broadforks inhabit an unusual space in gardening in which something that sounds too good to be true is, ...

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 make 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 (and ...