Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. composting 101 lead The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring is just around the corner and with it will come lawn care and thoughts of planting a garden. One of the ways to reduce ...

According to the most recent EPA estimates, the average American is responsible for throwing away almost 1,500 pounds of trash annually. Much of this waste falls under reduce, reuse or recycle ...

Green composts large scale, tending to three piles established by his parents that each hold a year’s accumulation. They’re turned annually, but otherwise left to their own devices in a tri-year cycle ...

As Tom Philpott wrote in the introductory essay to Grist’s Feeding the City series, urban agriculture took a huge hit once combustible-fuel machines replaced horses — and horse manure — as the vehicle ...

Costa shares some simple tips to create compost for the garden. The key to creating good compost is to think like a microbe, Costa says; like us, they need air, water and food. Get that right, and the ...

The following post is part of AL.com's Blogging a Better Birmingham series, featuring community groups that are working to uplift the city through acts of service. If your group would like to be ...