If you want a lush lawn or a successful garden, fertilizers and plant food are absolute necessities. However, the cost of keeping everything green can definitely take a toll on your wallet. You can ...

It’s no secret that the key to healthy plants is healthy soil, and the best way to improve soil is by incorporating compost, which can take up to a year to make. Bokashi is a composting method that ...

Living in an apartment doesn't mean you have to give up on composting. It's one thing to want to reduce your environmental ...

Dear Heloise: I have a plastic compost bucket in my kitchen. We dump all vegetable and fruit discards in it and then dump it in the green bin for the city to compost. I tossed my old one because I ...

This time last year, my slow crawl toward living more sustainably led me to start composting at home. But perhaps to the chagrin of my farming grandparents, I had no plans to do it myself. Instead, I ...

A small business and an Olmsted County pilot project give people some options for keeping food waste out of landfills and incinerators. Brian Scanlan, co-owner of Front Door to Farm, waves to Travis ...

There was a unforeseen hole in the District’s compost pilot program that launched in fall of 2023. The white compost buckets issued to the 9,000 households participating in the project were routinely ...

A citywide pilot program to collect food scraps from District residents has run into a completely unexpected problem: bucket theft. Big-time bucket theft. Each of the 9,000 households participating in ...