Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. composting 101 lead The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring is just around the corner and with it will come lawn care and thoughts of planting a garden. One of the ways to reduce ...

With autumn leaves falling all around us, there’s no better time to begin composting than now. Why let the city remove those valuable leaves when you can easily transform them into the best soil ...

According to the most recent EPA estimates, the average American is responsible for throwing away almost 1,500 pounds of trash annually. Much of this waste falls under reduce, reuse or recycle ...

Green composts large scale, tending to three piles established by his parents that each hold a year’s accumulation. They’re turned annually, but otherwise left to their own devices in a tri-year cycle ...

The following post is part of AL.com's Blogging a Better Birmingham series, featuring community groups that are working to uplift the city through acts of service. If your group would like to be ...

As Tom Philpott wrote in the introductory essay to Grist’s Feeding the City series, urban agriculture took a huge hit once combustible-fuel machines replaced horses — and horse manure — as the vehicle ...