A residential Renewal Composting bucket to collect food scraps, alongside a bag of finished compost sold by the company. Credit: Renewal Composting / Courtesy Helping to save the planet is all well ...

If you want a lush lawn or a successful garden, fertilizers and plant food are absolute necessities. However, the cost of keeping everything green can definitely take a toll on your wallet. You can ...

It’s tempting to think of composting as building a holder, throwing in food and coming back a few weeks later to something you can toss in your garden, but the reality requires much more time, space ...

Just because composting at home is easy doesn’t mean that everyone does it. Yes, organic compost is expensive at the garden center and free when you make it yourself, but if you don’t figure out a ...

This time last year, my slow crawl toward living more sustainably led me to start composting at home. But perhaps to the chagrin of my farming grandparents, I had no plans to do it myself. Instead, I ...

Maybe you've thought about composting, but really don't have the time or space to do it. Now, there is a company that will do the hard work for you. “This is called a trommel. It's just a fancy name ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by Bokashi Living shows kitchen scraps being added to a bokashi composting bucket. (bokashiliving.com via AP) ...

There’s a reason gardeners in South Florida call compost “black gold” and why many of them produce it in their own yards. “I find composting empowering; you don’t have to wait on anyone,” said Lanette ...

On a sunny Saturday morning in June, Amanda Simons and Gabriel Doyle arrived at the Ocean View Community Garden in San Diego’s Mountain View neighborhood with a 5-gallon, locked white bucket. Inside ...