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 ...

Compost is the ultimate ingredient for building fertile soil. If everyone composted their kitchen and garden waste, the world would be a cleaner place, and we would all enjoy more productive organic ...

If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...

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 ...

By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.

Composting is one of the best things you can do for your garden and the environment, say Contra Costa Master Gardeners who specialize in composting. It directs garden and kitchen waste away from ...

From hair to hay, here are some lesser-known things put in your garden waste bin – as well as one surprising thing you ...

Fall is a perfect time to consider composting. As our days get cooler and shorter, deciduous trees will begin to shed their leaves. I can remember as a kid raking up at least 80 bags a year of live ...

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 ...

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 ...

A council has launched an initiative to cut garden waste through composting. South Hams District Council in Devon said there were already eight community garden waste composting sites in the area but ...