Food waste is a significant contributor to greenhouse gasses and accounts for roughly one third of the food meant for human ...

Many home gardeners start compost piles before winter to reduce waste and prepare for spring prep. Fall cleanup provides a steady supply of leaves, stalks and other carbon-rich materials that become ...

Composting is the process of breaking down organic matter, like food scraps, into all-natural fertilizer. This is how to ...

Gardeners often assume outdoor compost piles stop working in cold weather, but beneficial microbes can continue to break down compost all winter. The problem is that composting takes much longer in ...

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, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Compost is a mixture of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land. Raw organic waste becomes a nutrient-rich soil amendment when properly composted.

Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. Build a compost pile as you would craft a lasagna. Construct the pile by alternating 2-inch layers of brown (dead leaves, wood chips, straw) and green ...

In this video, I show you, Monty, the "compost sniffer," which is a device that analyses your compost pile for things like ...

Composting requires the right balance of new materials, water and heat to keep the microorganisms in your pile healthy and happy. Adobe Stock Image When gardeners ...

November is the saving month. Time to save dahlias, fallen leaves, tender plants with a mulch around the roots and seeds for planting in the spring. You also may still save money by buying trees, ...

Leaves are beginning to fall from deciduous trees, and this will increase over the next few weeks. The question is, “What do we do with all of those leaves?” I’ve been seeing information online ...

After a hot, dry summer — there was a drought in most parts of New England — we had a very early frost this year, Sept. 20.