With plenty of leaves, grass clippings and garden debris available, residents can create compost piles that benefit their gardens.

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 ...

A small, modular composting system may be just what your small property needs. You don’t need a huge open pile to break down organic materials from your garden. Try this small but mighty DIY compost ...

Seafood compost offers rich nutrients and soil balance for home gardens, but it also comes with a few challenges every ...

Want to grow huge crops of delicious vegetables, beautiful flowers, and tasty fruits? Gardeners need to begin with a fertile soil rich in compost. Although the origin of human composting remains lost, ...

Regardless of what you’re growing, your plants need nutrients. Without fertilizer, your plants will fail to thrive and grow ...

Food scraps make up 25 billion pounds of trash per year in this country—captured energy that could go back into greening the planet. A wilted broccoli stalk, a grapefruit peel, a carrot top. That’s ...

Autumn frosts usually means lots of clean up around the yard and garden. Why not turn that yard waste into treasure? Composting is a naturally occurring process that breaks down organic materials into ...

I was recently tasked with summarizing the principles of organic gardening on just a half sheet of paper. Given that there have been thousands of books and articles written on the topic, it was a ...

How to turn autumn leaves into a nutrient-rich mould for your garden - Dead leaves can be an important component for gardens ...

Q. I read that there is a new law that requires all food waste to be composted in Redding. I was visiting my daughter and her family in Davis and they have a separate container for their food waste. I ...