Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to make large batches. Pour blender compost around plants, or into trenches, compost ...

Composting is an essential kitchen task. When I began composting our kitchen scraps (I live in area with a great municipal compost program), we cut our trash output by more than half. Now, when I see ...

For compost to break down well, you need a mix of carbon-rich browns and nitrogen-rich greens. Fall leaves provide carbon, ...

If you’ve been thinking about recycling all of that yard waste into compost, now’s the time to get busy. You’ll have plenty of prime ingredients coming up shortly in the form of falling leaves, ...

If you're looking to start composting but turning an entire corner of your yard into something resembling The Great Trash Heap isn't for you, this double-decker drum composter gives you easy and quick ...

Lawn trimmings, eggshells, old vegetables and shredded newspaper. Put it all together, and what do you get? Some call it garbage. Others call it black gold, the best fertilizer there is for lawns and ...

Even foods that can be composted need balance. Citrus peels and onion skins are fine in small amounts, but adding too many at ...

I have been alive long enough to remember many curious ways of disposing of trash. First, there was the incinerator room is an apartment building in Brooklyn, where we tossed everything from broken ...