If you’re looking to reduce waste and create nutrient-rich soil for your garden, composting at home is a simple and effective way to do it.

The Twin Ports area already is well-known for its numerous sustainability organizations and initiatives. But here's something you can do on your own to make a difference. Whether you're a gardening ...

A shovel full of compost about to be added to a raised garden - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock So many different types of kitchen scraps can be reused in your garden as a natural fertilizer, and ...

Those leaves are then often raked up and put on the curbside to be collected with the trash. Please, don’t do that. They are a valuable form of organic matter that can be put to use in your landscape.

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Before you toss that sagging jack-o-lantern, learn how this piece of Halloween waste can get a new life as a soil amendment ...

Walk into your garden, and you’re surrounded by black gold. It’s under your feet after you mow your grass, in the garden when you pull spent plants, and in the leaves that fall from your trees. It’s ...

Compost is a great way to recycle kitchen and garden scraps. It takes organic waste and turns it into nutrient-rich humus that can be used by plants. Composting is a way of returning to the soil what ...

While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

Compost at home? Don’t I have to send all my kitchen scraps to the curb in my green waste bin? Nope! They don’t ALL have to go into your green bin. They just can’t go into the landfill, according to ...

Stacie Johnson, compost expert extraordinaire, sent me a note about getting flooded yards back in shape. Stacie, education coordinator for the Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency, said owners ...