Composting is science and making truly usable plant and garden fuel requires a careful balance of dry brown material and wet, nutrient-rich green. The latter usually consists of kitchen waste but ...

Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you'll find "compost activators" offered. These mixtures contain beneficial microorganisms, ...

Probably the oldest existing reference to the use of manure in agriculture is found on a set of clay tablets found in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) 1,000 years before Moses. The Bible, Sir Walter Raleigh ...

I’ve been feeling wasteful lately when I’m disposing of unused veggies or food scraps and with three children in the house, there is a lot of waste. Composting has been on my to-do list for some time ...

David lives in Brooklyn where he's spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. David earned his BA from ...