If you’re not used to separating your organic food scraps for compost collection—which became mandatory in New York City in ...

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Drill holes around the container for aeration and lift it slightly off the ground to allow drainage—simple tweaks that ...

Composting puts Mother Nature on a fast track by quickening the natural process of decomposition. Microscopic organisms break down yard and kitchen waste, and manure, into a rich organic fertilizer ...

My office is just down the road from the Washington State University composting facility. It processes more than 10,000 pounds of organic waste every month. That’s a lot of compost! I talked about ...

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There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...

Is your compost a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste? You might be doing everything wrong. Fear not ...

Mushroom compost is made from spent mushroom farming substrate. It's now widely available, and there are lots of reasons you ...