Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I cogitate on the methods and outcome of home composting, I often think of the title of the classic compost book, “Let it Rot” by Stu Campbell. The book ...

Compost can provide your yard’s gardens and flower, tree and vegetable beds with healthy nutrients that help your plants grow. It’s also great for helping strengthen your soil in floods and droughts, ...

Composting is a win-win. It can save money, keeps eggshells and weeds out of the landfill and is the single best additive ...

Turning compost piles provides more air to beneficial microbes, helping to speed up the composting process and creating enough heat to kill weed seeds, pests, and pathogens. Aim to turn a hot compost ...

A compost chimney is a simple addition to any pile that can speed up the composting process and eliminate slow or smelly ...

To worm or not to worm? When it comes to composting, that’s the question many savvy gardeners are pondering these days, and for good reason: Worm castings — a.k.a. poop — are the nutrient-rich organic ...

Composting is a simple, economical way to recycle your kitchen scraps and yard trimmings. Adding finished compost to our soil improves its structure and health, as well increases its pore space and ...

SACRAMENTO — Community members are getting a hands-on lesson on how their old banana peels and leftover lettuce can be beneficial for the environment. Diane Stratigos wants to plant a garden to grow ...

Composting is a great idea because it creates healthy soil and is good for the environment. You should be cautious about ...

ROCHESTER, Minn — Volunteers from throughout the city of Rochester came out strong for an agricultural compost build day, which months from now will be used by immigrant farmers to feed and support ...

Your compost pile will be a mix of “browns” and “greens”. Together, with water and air, these materials will decompose and transform into a soil amendment. ISTOCK PHOTO Your compost pile will be a mix ...

If you pile up organic material in a remote corner of your garden, it will eventually turn into compost without you needing to do a thing. But if you want to create high-quality compost fast and make ...