Composting is an essential skill to learn for any serious gardener. Known affectionately as black gold, compost is a rich, ...

If you’ve just started composting, you might wonder how to speed up compost so it’s completely decomposed and usable. It’s not hard to do! As long as you have the right balance of greens to browns, ...

Q. How do I start and maintain a compost pile/bin? Is there a certain type of composter you recommend? I love composting because it’s a way you can take something that would normally be waste and turn ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the amount of trash also increases by about 25%, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. To reduce the amount of waste, ...

Growing vegetables in raised beds offers many benefits. Raised beds give your garden a sense of scale and structure, limit ...