Roots & Resin Farms co-founders Max Young (left) and Preston Torres pose for a photo on the farm near Lindstrom on Sept. 4. Roots & Resin Farms in Lindstrom is one of Minnesota’s first licensed ...

Composting toilets are a great idea, but no one likes to think of the waste just sitting there and slowly … fermenting. A new eco-friendly toilet gets around that problem by using mushrooms to ...

New York City has given its residents nearly six million pounds of compost this year, converting food waste and yard trimmings into 'black gold' to improve soil health instead of sending to landfills.

American society probably puts more pressure on producing a good quarterback than anything else, which makes it all the more confounding that the Jets can never have one. OK, OK. So that’s not ...

Mix your compost As green waste, homemade compost is variable. However, using a mix of peat-free and about 10 per cent of homemade or John Innes compost (which is loam-based) will improve water and ...

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Reverb is an initiative and a reporting team from MPR News focused on serving younger (and young-at-heart) Minnesotans. We know Minnesota is changing and younger adults want news in new, more ...