The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing environment for plants. Composting is easy and inexpensive, and ...

They actually look good!

It takes two to three weeks for a properly maintained 2-foot pile of leaves to turn into a bucket full of black, crumbly, sweet-smelling compost. Connie Gannon Fresno Bee archive Many gardeners are ...

We have two freestanding plastic composters in our home garden so we can do our small part in reducing waste going to a landfill. Continue putting organic material from the kitchen in the composter ...

Automatic indoor composter turns banana peels and rotten lettuce into usable fertilizer in two weeks--and it does it without the stink. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, overseeing the ...

Setting up an in-home recycling program isn't so hard these days, particularly since the majority of our local garbage haulers allow items to be "co-mingled." Co-mingling describes the practice of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of April 1, 2025, composting (which turns food scraps into nutrients) is now mandatory in New York City. Even if you don’t live ...

Californians who long ago became accustomed to separating their trash and recycling their cans, bottles and paper are now being asked to separate their kitchen garbage so it can be recycled into ...

Something as simple as swapping out lightbulbs in your kitchen can also make more of a difference than you may realize. LED ...