Electric composters are a recent innovation with a promising future. Now you can compost at home in small spaces with no ...

Q: I am having a hard time finding compost to use. Will a peat moss that a local nursery sells work like compost? A: No, it won’t. When compost decomposes it does two things: It keeps the soil open, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Student composters Akira Torres, Zuhal Jamal, and Juliette Bolanos… Credit: Maya McFadden Photo ...

In a previous column, I mentioned the BioBags being distributed by the City and Norcal Waste Systems to assist us with composting our families' table scraps. Turns out these are just a drop in the ...

Compost is black gold to a garden. It is a rich source of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. It makes even the driest sand or gummiest clay into beautifully crumbly, friable soil that is able to ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Beauty is to the beholder, and Ken Kelly believes eggshells, wilted lettuce and smelly coffee grounds are truly beautiful. Not everyone looks in the garbage can and sees the same ...

The annual Rate Bowl kicked off on Dec. 26 inside Chase Field in Phoenix. The Golden Gophers of Minnesota would walk off New Mexico in overtime to win their ninth straight bowl game which is the ...

You remember that electric little thrill you get when you stumble onto a gardening secret so simple, so clever, so ridiculously effective that you wonder why it isn’t printed on seed packets in bold ...

Despite Cornell’s elaborate composting operations in recent years to ensure that as little organic material as possible goes to the landfill, the no-waste campus dream seems far from fruition. One of ...