Hot composting requires a fairly precise recipe of ingredients and a considerable amount of attention and management to ...

Composting at home is an easy and eco-friendly way to turn kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich soil for your plants. You reduce ...

The County of San Diego is offering free webinars in November to help live and grow sustainably, in partnership with Solana ...

Home-made compost is best spread on bare soil as a mulch, where it will be pulled in by the worms. The composting process requires a mix of soft, nitrogen-rich material and woodier, carbon-rich ...

“Composting is the human version of re-creating what Mother Nature does out in the wild”: mixing together organic materials to facilitate healthy decomposition, says Rebecca Louie, founder of ...

Now the extension is showing it is more than just talking about the issues with the addition of a worm chalet — a compost bin filled with worms that eat organic matter, and where the worm wasted ...

Layer your materials like a compost lasagna. The ideal ratio is green to wet items and brown to dry items. Three parts brown to one part green. You don’t have to adhere to this strictly, but ...

Using a compost bin is the most effective way of managing the composting process, so consult our expert tests to see which one to buy The bin you use for composting can make a world of difference to ...

Saturday, October 12, is shaping up to be a "day for the worms" — and more practically, how gardeners can use them to create compost for home planter beds and flower plots.

The Washington State University Skagit County Extension held a ribbon-cutting event Wednesday for its worm composting bin. Faculty and staff at the extension offices west of Burlington are using ...