The arrival of fall means your yard is suddenly full of leaves. Instead of bagging them up, you can put those leaves to work in your garden. Composting fall leaves is a practical way to tidy up your ...

If you have leaves accumulating on your lawn and in the garden, instead of raking them up into piles and putting them in bags to set on the curb, may we suggest composting them. Leaves are full of ...

The next time you're whipping up a shaved carrot, asparagus, and apple salad, you may not want to throw those carrot tops, apple peels, and asparagus stems in the trash. Instead, set them aside for ...

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, ...

Some gardeners have asked if composting garden, yard and food waste is sustainable or beneficial to the environment since the composting process generates lots of carbon dioxide, the principal ...

Cool composting offers a low-maintenance way to recycle garden waste, but the slower decomposition time can unintentionally spread weeds if not managed properly. There are some major differences when ...

Most gardeners do some composting. Some folks compost anything that once was part of a living plant, often mixing it with barnyard waste; they turn and aerate their piles and make terrific compost in ...

The contents of your winter composting collection can be the same throughout the year. Include kitchen scraps such as fruit ...

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 ...

Just in time for peak leaf-raking season, the National Wildlife Federation is out with a new survey showing that although nearly three-quarters of people know that fallen leaves are beneficial to ...

By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.