Recycling yard debris increases soil organic matter, improves nutrient and water-holding capacity, and feeds soil microbes.

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British tomato plants are starving in pots and borders while a powerful feed goes in the bin every night. How can leftover onion skins become their secret fuel? You peel an onion for dinner, scoop the ...

Want to take your garden to the next level? Composting benefits the environment, plus, it’s a fun way to nourish your plants for the best growth possible. If you’re new to composting, I talked to ...

The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...

Welcome back to Saturday Night Social. Are you in need of a hobby that takes a lot of work and yields little to no results? Want a new way to prove to yourself that you’re not a complete waste of ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...