No matter how much you make, there’s never enough compost to go around. So pick your system and get started. By Margaret Roach How’s that compost coming? If you live in a New York City apartment, it ...

Some gardeners have asked if composting garden, yard and food waste is sustainable or beneficial to the environment since the composting process generates lots of carbon dioxide, the principal ...

Learn simple, practical steps to start composting at home and turn kitchen scraps into nutrient rich garden soil, boosting plant health and reducing waste.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shovel full of compost about to be added to a raised garden - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock So many different types of kitchen ...

Spring cleaning isn't just for inside, as the weather warms and we get ready for new growth it's time to clean back some of the old growth. It's easy to get carried away with those pruning shears and ...

Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tons of food each year. That’s more than five kilograms each household per week. Over half of all ...

Cheryl Desha receives relevant funding from the Queensland Government, Gold Coast City Council and Rocky Point Pty Ltd. She is a member of Engineers Australia (EA), the Surveying and Spatial Sciences ...

Manure-based compost piles can be more work and take more time than piles fueled by kitchen scraps. But the rewards are too good to pass up. Many horse and mule stables in the area offer free manure ...

One of Lanette Sobel’s most trusted business partners is a worm. Actually, she works with lots of worms. They’re essential to her specialized six-acre farm in Homestead. While many of her agricultural ...

Whilst you may think your garden waste bin is a catch-all for anything organic or natural, some unsuspecting items should never be put in there. So much so that you can receive pretty hefty fines for ...