Most people walk past their lawn trimmings, fallen leaves, and garden debris without a second thought. That pile of waste by ...

Your compost pile will be a mix of “browns” and “greens”. Together, with water and air, these materials will decompose and transform into a soil amendment. ISTOCK PHOTO Your compost pile will be a mix ...

Grass clippings aren't the only yard waste that's ideal for your compost. Your trees naturally shed another material that ...

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 ...

Manure-based compost piles can be more work and take more time than piles fueled by kitchen scraps. But the rewards are too good to pass up. Many horse and mule stables in the area offer free manure ...

Many landscape plants can benefit greatly from amended soil. Our native sandy soil drains readily and doesn’t do so well with holding on to soil nutrients and water. But you can produce your own ...

Maggots in compost are almost always black soldier fly larvae, and in most bins they’re harmless. Finding a modest number of ...

"The main concern with small mammal waste is more about parasites than anything else." ...

While fruit peels and coffee grounds are commonly understood to be good additions to compost, it might surprise you that this ...

While coffee grounds and banana peels both add valuable nutrients, this compost material is even easier to come by and would otherwise go to the landfill.