As a first-time composter, I'm on the hunt for the best methods to make my efforts successful. That's why I've been deciding between the layering vs turning compost techniques. Both layering and ...

Compost can provide your yard’s gardens and flower, tree and vegetable beds with healthy nutrients that help your plants grow. It’s also great for helping strengthen your soil in floods and droughts, ...

Sourdough starter, a common baking byproduct, often goes unused and builds up. Yet that thick mixture could transform into a surprising ally for your compost.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Compost is a mixture of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land. Raw organic waste becomes a nutrient-rich soil amendment when properly composted.

If you haven’t touched your compost bin or pile all winter, don’t worry, you are not alone. It could be filled with kitchen scraps to the top or left untouched since the fall. Getting a compost pile ...

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 ...

I wasn't sure that my amateurish attempts at composting were going so well. That was before I pulled on some gloves and started poking under the ugly pile of rotting lettuce leaves, eggshells, parsnip ...

Koren Helbig has devised an easy and effective method of turning her food waste and plant trimmings into a nutrient-rich ...

Everywhere I look, I see signs that say "Go Green." This fall I would like to change the slogan a little to "Go Brown to Go Green." Let me explain. I was in my front yard a few days ago, complaining ...