Food waste — kitchen scraps, restaurant leftovers, and expired food that gets tossed out at grocery stores — decays quickly. That process generates more methane than any other material that ends up in ...

Vermicomposting is the process of using vegetable kitchen waste from meal preparation and other organic materials to make a really fine soil amendment and letting red wiggler earthworms do all (most) ...

The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing environment for plants. Composting is easy and inexpensive, and ...

Impressed by compost's contribution to the soil, gardeners conferred on it the nickname "black gold." Even more beneficial worm castings could take the title "black diamonds." Just ask Larry Steele, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Someone preparing a bokashi compost bucket with lots of food scraps. - Guido Mieth/Getty Images By just looking at it, bokashi and ...

Food waste, when tossed into a landfill, creates millions of tons of greenhouse gases and is a leading contributor to climate change. But when food waste is inevitable, what can be done to reduce the ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...

This will be a unique festival where local community partners are work together to raise public awareness on why we all should be composting our organic stream recycling and using compost. This will ...

We gardeners stand on our success. Literally. For bragging rights to our flowers, foliage and fruit, we start with what lies underfoot, the soil. Our goal: rich, crumbly, nutrient-packed, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A healthy organic garden takes the right mix of microbiological forces, and a successful business needs the right mix of market forces. Ken Williams and his ...