One of the great benefits of composting is that you can reduce your household waste by adding food scraps to the compost bin. Honestly, between composting and recycling, there’s very little that goes in the trash can at my house! Here are a few tips on how to make the most of your food scraps for compost. Read More
We generally accept the idea of adding cow manure or bird droppings to the garden as a fertilizer, but thinking about using the waste that comes out of our own bodies is frankly pretty gross. When you think about it (not that you want to), our own poop could be a valuable gardening resource, not to mention the environmental benefits of reducing sewage waste. Composting toilets are becoming popular as a way to harvest “humanure”. Read on for the basics of this very natural practice. Read More
Composting isn’t only a summer garden chore. You can do it all year-round! Decomposition is a bit slower in the colder months, but with some adjustments to your composting routine, you can keep the composting dream alive from fall to spring. Read More
Temperature is one of the key indicators of whether or not your compost is actually composting. In spite of this, so many of us rely on our senses (sight and smell) to figure out when it’s done. Read on for a more scientific (and accurate!) way to check your compost. 
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If you have a mix of the right organic ingredients and the right temperatures, compost will happen. But it can take months… Some gardeners are turning to a new different composting method to speed up the process. Read More
Ask any gardener to tell you their least-favorite gardening task, and they’ll admit it’s flipping compost. Composting is hard work. If you don’t turn the pile regularly, your compost won’t ripen. There’s no easy way around it; turning compost always means some degree of manual labor. Read More
With fall almost here, it’s time to start thinking about what you’ll do with all those leaves. One of the greatest gifts leaves give us is leaf mold, a natural soil conditioner that is easy and free to make. Read More
Composting is an excellent way to create nutritious fertilizer for your garden while reducing your family’s landfill contribution. If there’s one negative thing to be said about composting, it’s the work involved in flipping it. A compost tumbler can make this chore easier, and you can even make the contraption yourself! Read More
One of the home gardener’s biggest compost problems is controlling flies. Manure and food scraps are very appealing to flies, and before you know it a perfectly fine compost heap can turn into a fly sanctuary, housing thousands of the pests, and creating a health hazard. Read More
Composting is one of the easiest ways for a gardener to get rich, earthy soil, but sometimes the process can take a long time, frustrating those new to composting. Speed up the process by adding an active enzyme to help quickly break down your compost pile in record time.
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