Composting provides your garden with a range of benefits, and it's very easy to do. Composting reduces waste, conserves water ...

Please don’t treat your soil like dirt. The drought underscores the importance of folding compost into your garden soil to hold onto precious water. Or use compost as mulch. Organic material can help ...

One effective method to stretch water supplies is using a combination of compost and mulch around plants. Doing so improves the soil and saves water. Homeowners can make their own compost by recycling ...

PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

Apartment dwellers and anyone else without their own yard can sometimes feel left out of the Earth Day conversation when it touts all the benefits of growing food or landscaping with native plants in ...

Composting allows you to recycle debris from the lawn and garden. Courtesy Johnson County Extension. Composting is the process where rich organic materials are broken down when microorganisms feed. It ...

Californians are mandated to reduce water use by 36 percent — no ifs, ands or buts. Compost is one way to achieve that goal. Above ground or in the soil, adding compost is a winner. The city of ...

Large amounts of animal waste dumped into landfills and left to rot can cause environmental problems. But composting animal waste, like horse manure, can help keep land and water clean. As part of our ...

The most radical “green” features of the City of San Jose’s new Environmental Innovation Center are concealed behind two doors marked “Women” and “Men.” There, plopped between the other conventional ...