Making your own compost is a great way to improve your soil, make use of garden waste and recycle nutrients for your plants ...

Discover the benefits of homemade vs store-bought compost, with insights from an expert. Both are invaluable to use in the ...

One barrier to composting is the assumption that it takes a large backyard setup to do it "right." ...

Savvy gardeners are always looking for ways to simplify gardening tasks, so it’s no surprise that blender composting has been catching on in a big way. Compared to traditional composting, “composting” ...

You can make great compost. See three sizes and types of bins or bays, with and without a roof. The smallest of these three ...

With all the daily struggles we face, worrying about the soil might not seem to be a priority. However, at present, cropland soil is eroding roughly ten times faster than it can be replenished. This ...

There’s nothing mysterious about making compost. It’s just a mixture of stuff we usually toss — banana peels, coffee grounds, eggshells, shredded newspaper, fallen leaves, grass clippings ... and that ...

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 ...

You know that there are a lot of kitchen scraps that you can add to create nutrient-dense compost, but here's one you might ...

To worm or not to worm? When it comes to composting, that’s the question many savvy gardeners are pondering these days, and for good reason: Worm castings — a.k.a. poop — are the nutrient-rich organic ...

There are two basic ways to compost outdoors, a static bin (like the one my colleague David Priest made himself) or a compost tumbler. There are infinite ways to make a static bin (plop down a bucket ...