Compost can provide your yard’s gardens and flower, tree and vegetable beds with healthy nutrients that help your plants grow. It’s also great for helping strengthen your soil in floods and droughts, ...

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In vermicomposters like the Bionicraft (pictured), worms turn your fruit and vegetable scraps into high-quality fertilizer, but they generally aren’t big fans of meats and oily leftovers. Composting ...

“When we harvest, trim, or clean up organic debris from the garden we are removing nutrients that have been pulled from the soil system,” explains Shannie McCabe, horticulturist and agriculture ...

SACRAMENTO — Community members are getting a hands-on lesson on how their old banana peels and leftover lettuce can be beneficial for the environment. Diane Stratigos wants to plant a garden to grow ...

Columbia residents can learn how to turn food scraps into “black gold” in a series of composting workshops this spring and summer. “You don’t need anything fancy to start,” said Debbie Lacy-Anderson, ...