If you feel strongly about eating your own home-grown, organic vegetables, and want to improve your garden soil, you need to learn how to make organic compost at home. For most gardeners, the ...

If you’re looking to reduce waste and create nutrient-rich soil for your garden, composting at home is a simple and effective way to do it. Composting is the natural process of breaking down organic ...

Compost quality: After all that work, what are we getting in the end? Is it high-quality compost for plants? Vermicompost can take three to six months before it’s ready to harvest. Or is it a mixture ...

Autumn brings cold weather, fallen leaves, and yard work. While raking up leaves consider using them for next year’s vegetables. Is leaf compost good for vegetable gardens? It’s some of the most ...

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 ...

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One of the more helpful characteristics of much of our soil on the coast is how well is drains. Most of our substrate is a sandy loam that filters moisture quickly and keeps areas from pooling with ...

Starre Vartan is an environmental and science journalist. She holds an MFA degree from Columbia University and Geology and English degrees from Syracuse University. Composting is a simple, reliable, ...

Are you intimidated to start composting at home? If you answered yes, consider this: Even if you don’t compost, you’re already dealing with food waste. By not composting, you're just putting your food ...