Find a source of fresh fall leaves that you want to collect. Carefully examine the leaves to ensure there are no signs of ...

Composting is an excellent way to eliminate spent leaves and help the environment. Composting also conserves moisture and ...

Compost is the ultimate ingredient for building fertile soil. If everyone composted their kitchen and garden waste, the world would be a cleaner place, and we would all enjoy more productive organic ...

In a 1960s-era edition of Rodale’s “Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening,” the lengthy entry for compost reads like an ode to organic soil amendments: “Here in a dark and mouldy pile the wheel of life is ...

Since biblical times, farmers have utilized crop residues and animal manure to build soil and enhance crop production. Before the agricultural revolution in the mid-20th century, farming was ...

There are many benefits of using compost in your garden, planting beds, and your lawn, and fall can be the perfect time to start a compost pile while you are cleaning up the garden and removing leaves ...

A number of cities around the world now sort their municipal trash, diverting organic matter into giant anaerobic composters that turn it into nutrient-rich soil. Such systems can be very expensive, ...

University of California Cooperative Extension will hold a webinar on managing nitrogen in organic annual crops Dec. 9 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The International Compost Alliance highlights that the recycling of unavoidable food waste constitutes an effective measure ...