Gloria C. of Santa Rosa asks: I have three compost bins that are already full and overflowing with composting material. Now, here come the falling leaves. I have no room for another compost bin, so ...

The do’s and don’ts of maintaining a healthy compost pile and building a better garden compost bin. This planet has been making dirt for a long time: decomposing carbon-based organic matter through a ...

Greg Pryor of the composting company Recology holds a handful of processed compost at the integrated waste management's compost site in the San Joaquin Valley town of Vernalis in June. He tries to get ...

The problem is that composting takes much longer in cold weather, and winter gardeners can quickly end up with a backlog of ...

Re: “Compost happens. But how can you take advantage of it in your own garden?” May 5 news story. Your article on composting left out a very efficient method that is ideally suited to Colorado’s ...

No matter how much you make, there’s never enough compost to go around. So pick your system and get started. By Margaret Roach How’s that compost coming? If you live in a New York City apartment, it ...

The town of Burns has locked up its compost dump site after an influx of what it claims are Cheyenne businesses dumping there to avoid paying their ...

Gloria C. of Santa Rosa asks: I have three compost bins that are already full and overflowing with composting material. Now, here come the falling leaves. I have no room for another compost bin, so ...

Greg Pryor began composting yard and food waste for San Francisco in 1996, and today he oversees nine industrial-sized composting sites in California and Oregon that turn discarded banana peels, ...