Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you’ll find “compost activators” offered. These mixtures contain beneficial micro-organisms, ...

I’ve heard that compost accelerators speed up composting and result in better compost. Are these claims true? Most independent studies have concluded that those products aren’t worth the expense. The ...

It takes time to make compost. Organic matter requires about two to three months to break down in hot compost piles, and up to a year or more in cold composting systems. But if you add a compost ...

Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you’ll find compost activators offered. These mixtures contain beneficial microorganisms, nutrients ...

Probably the oldest existing reference to the use of manure in agriculture is found on a set of clay tablets found in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) 1,000 years before Moses. The Bible, Sir Walter Raleigh ...

I’ve been feeling wasteful lately when I’m disposing of unused veggies or food scraps and with three children in the house, there is a lot of waste. Composting has been on my to-do list for some time ...

Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you'll find "compost activators" offered. These mixtures contain beneficial microorganisms, ...

While many people enjoy talking about “going green,” there are plenty of Northeast Ohioans who actually dedicate their day-to-day routines to decreasing their carbon footprint. One simple way to do so ...