Composting is an easy and impactful way to reduce household waste, recycle organic materials, and enrich soil, while also ...

Dr. Donna Nickerson is the owner of Da’ Shack Farmers Market Health and Wellness, Inc. in Waco, Texas. “Professionally, I’m a psychotherapist, and I also have a deep connection to Indigenous gardening ...

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There are different levels of composting depending on what you hope to achieve. Some methods involve worms while others let nature take its course. Either way it's a win because the waste is broken ...

Compost can provide your yard’s gardens and flower, tree and vegetable beds with healthy nutrients that help your plants grow. It’s also great for helping strengthen your soil in floods and droughts, ...

By Perry Santanachote Updated by Justin Krajeski If you’re an urban apartment dweller with zero outdoor space, like me, perhaps you’ve relearned how to recycle, you’re working on quitting plastic, or ...

“When we harvest, trim, or clean up organic debris from the garden we are removing nutrients that have been pulled from the soil system,” explains Shannie McCabe, horticulturist and agriculture ...

If helping the environment isn’t incentive enough to start composting, it will save you time and money, too. “If you’re making compost, you’re going to be reducing your needs for fertilizer and water, ...

Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

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