If you have a compost pile or a worm bin, you’re well on your way to creating the amazing product some gardeners call black ...

Bury the bottle neck-down near your plants and fill it with water. The water will slowly drip out, keeping the soil moist.

Brown and green plant material provide your compost bin with much-needed nutrients. However, certain plants can contaminate ...

Learn how to make compost and keep composting in winter, how often to turn compost, and get the ratio for green and brown ...

Jude Harper always wanted to live in the countryside and live off his own produce. When both his parents died in the same ...

In this month's "Cultivating Success in the Farm & Garden" column, Hubbard County U of M Extension educator shares how to compost throughout a cold, Minnesotan winter.

If you've been thinking about composting but are worried it might be too complicated or expensive, you're in the right place. Making your own DIY compost doesn't have to be a big, costly project. In ...

Making furniture from wood pallets is trending nowadays and very cheap. Pallets have been around for decades as mechanisms for shipping and storing larger items (among other things). They’ve become a ...

A 17-year-old York Suburban student wants to build community, reduce waste in landfills, and enrich the soil through a new community compost bin project. For Alexia Purkanto, it began with a compost ...

Lack of outdoor space shouldn’t stop you from composting. Here’s how to get started. Composting helps reduce methane emissions by turning food scraps and other waste into a nutrient-rich fertilizer ...