Did you know the microbes in your compost pile is still active in the dead of winter? They will be if you take certain steps to get ready for cold weather.

By equipping residents with the knowledge to understand composting’s value, it can make collection services accessible and help to implement mandates that ...

Prune hostas in fall after frost for tidy beds, but waiting until spring protects crowns and roots. In summer, remove dead or damaged leaves and spent flowers to keep plants healthy. Always cut with ...

This means that when you buy a compostable bag in India, there's an 85% chance it will end up in a regular garbage dump or landfill where it behaves exactly like a plastic bag -- taking years to break ...

Today — and every day — animal composting quietly takes place  at a fenced-in site on U.S. 127 North, about halfway up what’s popularly known as Cedar Cove Hill. A sign on the tall, locked, chain-link ...

Turn your kitchen scraps into garden gold in minutes, no compost bin required. Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to ...

Dr Ruby Makhija set out to solve waste issues. Eight years later, her Delhi colony hasn’t sent a single bag to landfill.

"Gardening doesn’t have to be that complicated." Gardener shares brilliant hack for heavy bags of soil and compost: 'This is genius' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Left to break down completely, they become leaf mold — a dark, crumbly material that acts like compost and boosts soil health, writes this Cowlitz County Master Gardener.

Susan Thoman started working in the composting industry in 2004 and was introduced to plastic alternatives for composting in 2007, when commercial food scrap collection programs started in the Seattle ...