They have a wide variety of home composting kits and other eco-friendly products that can really amp up your home garden game. ‘Grow It Yourself’ …
Green bins will cost £50 to empty as council attempts to cut carbon emissions
North Somerset Council agreed to start charging £50 a year for each 240-litre green bin it empties while promoting home composting in a bid to cut …
How do you deal with difficult soil?
All our native soils will benefit enormously from the addition of 3 inches of well-rotted compost. Clay soil is loosened so that water can penetrate and …
Vernon considering bringing back popular composting program
This week Vernon councillors will discuss whether the city should bring back its popular compost bin pilot project.
Greenwich to Pilot Food Scrap Recycling in April
A hauler will cart the material to a commercial composting facility to be turned into nutrient-rich compost. All food, including meat and dairy products, …
‘Complete package’ self-composting cow barn has triple-bottom-line benefits
Tony Allcock had a vision: a cow ‘moo-tel’ on his Waikato dairy farm. His idea was virtually unique in New Zealand: a self-composting barn that …
Master Gardeners Mark 16 Years of Demonstration Garden
Master Gardeners’ initial involvement in the garden was to hold fruit tree and rose pruning, and composting demonstrations open to the community.
Fertilize with animal manure for healthy spring vegetable gardens
If manures are not available, acceptable manure like organic fertilizer may be made through the process of composting. Simply put, compost is made …
Some organic-based material you can add to help your soil
Compost is first on the list of soil amendments, for good reason. Compost adds beneficial fungi and bacteria. Compost adds protein needed by micro- …
Green gardening: how to make sustainable choices
Go peat-free and pay more for alternatives such as composted wool, bracken or bulrushes. And there’s something else: moss. So regularly overlooked …