As the growing season draws to a close and your garden beds are filled with dead plants, consider adding them to your compost ...

Composting is a great option for minimizing waste and putting it to good use by turning food scraps and other organic matter into free fertilizer for your garden. (Nearly half of all garbage collected ...

Home composting is a more affordable long-term solution than buying fertilizer. Compost uses free materials, while fertilizer requires repeat purchases. Composting also improves soil health, reduces ...

Steam rising from a compost pile. You can learn how to make your very own compost pile below. As the temperatures begin to chill, more people are thinking about finding their snowblower than digging ...

Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to make large batches. Pour blender compost around plants, or into trenches, compost ...

I cringe when I see people discard banana peels, egg shells and other potential compostables. Composting not only saves landfill space, but can benefit the soil in your garden. Linn County Master ...

Brown compost materials are the carbon-rich backbone that lets your pile heat up, break down efficiently, and ultimately ...

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According to the EPA, food scraps and yard waste together make up more than 30% of what we discard. Composting keeps these materials out of landfills, where they release methane, a greenhouse gas, ...

Local residents now have another opportunity to help the environment as Annapolis Compost has branched out into Crofton. Annapolis Compost picks up all food waste from homes and businesses once a week ...

Approximately 2.5 billion people worldwide and 4 million people in the United States live without a flushing toilet. In Alaska, about 22 percent of the population — just over 160,000 people — live ...