Join Solana Center for this free two hour presentation where you will learn the basics of backyard composting and vermicomposting (composting with …

The idea of composting has thus been a distant dream. I’m not a super-greenie, but I do calculate the carbon emissions of my home and want to do …

The fine solids can be used as compost, fertilizer, soil amendments or to make phosphorus cake, while the liquid becomes effluent filtrate tea water for …

This past fall, Seidemann took on the role of coordinator for the Zero Waste Team, a student-led effort to initiate a complex composting program in the …

Compost promotes happy plants. Those plants can be composted to make more happy plants next year. It is a cycle gardeners utilize whether they make their own compost or buy it. Along this vein, I recommend two things: a new and unique book on composts and an opportunity to admire other …

National awareness days come thick and fast and many of them slip by without us noticing – but this entire week (6-12 May) is dedicated to celebrating one thing in particular: compost. International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), now in its 24th year, is a comprehensive educational initiative by the …

The free compost will be available for one day only at the old county landfill site in Verona, next to Badger Prairie Health Care Center, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Each visitor … The annual Madison compost bin and rain barrel sale will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Alliant Energy

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Four $20,000 grants, eight $10,000 grants and 20 $2,000 grants were distributed to fund a variety of projects including turtle habitat protection, environmental resource inventories, an electric vehicle charging station, single use plastic reduction campaigns, pond restoration, composting and food waste …

In an effort to ramp up the Denver Composts program, firefighters from 20 fire stations in the city of Denver are teaching local residents about the benefits of composting. Several of these fire stations have seen their recycling rates increase as much as 8 to 80 percent since they’ve implemented the …

“They can put it in the garbage container, they can compost it themselves or they can take it to the city compost pile,” he said. “We’ve got a good pile …