Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tons of food each year. That’s more than five kilograms each household per week. Over half of all ...

Vermicomposting — a.k.a. worm composting — is a compact way to turn your food scraps into worm castings (worm poop), a moist, crumbly soil amendment known as garden gold because it provides important ...

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Compost is the ultimate ingredient for building fertile soil. If everyone composted their kitchen and garden waste, the world would be a cleaner place, and we would all enjoy more productive organic ...

It’s a pretty simple equation: you’ll need browns, greens, water, oxygen and patience. The result is gold. Actually, the result is compost, but if you have a garden, you know compost is its own form ...

Trees are beginning to lose their leaves, your garden plants are done, and if you don’t have access to commercial composting pickup, you may want to try composting them in your yard. Composting is not ...

Composting helps Jill Butterfield and her family eat foods produced very locally: in their own garden. Butterfield, of Jackson, began composting when she realized how much food was going into the ...

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Some gardeners have asked if composting garden, yard and food waste is sustainable or beneficial to the environment since the composting process generates lots of carbon dioxide, the principal ...

A council has launched an initiative to cut garden waste through composting. South Hams District Council in Devon said there were already eight community garden waste composting sites in the area but ...

Gardeners in Davenport who are eager to start work on their 2024 gardens can get rid of yard waste and pick up soil amendments at the same time. Curbside yard waste collection resumes on Monday, April ...