Category: Composting

They’ve been cleaning up the scraps in Queens. The borough has helped divert more than 1 million pounds of food and yard waste in the last two weeks as part of a composting pilot program. CBS2’s Kevin Rincon reports. Source

Whether you are just starting to look into opportunities in the composting industry or want to step up your game to be a successful compost producer, you have to manage your fixed operational costs and produce quality end products people want to buy. According to Vermeer Recycling and Forestry Sales Manager Ted Dirkx, you can…

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Learn how to compost correctly if you live in an apartment or condo in the RethinkWaste service area*. *Belmont, Burlingame, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, Unincorporated Parts of San Mateo County, and West Bay Sanitary District. Source

Fall is the best time to feed your lawn. Our Garden Guru, Stan Slaughter gives us tips if you have your own compost pile. If you don’t, stop by any of Missouri Organic’s five Kansas City area locations to pick up your Nature Wise and/or Green Frontier Compost in bags. Give your lawn a head…

Composting is a great way to keep your food scraps from ending up in a landfill while delivering nutrient-rich soil in return. Sounds great, but if you’ve ever tried it, you know it can be confusing trying to figure out how to do it the right way. Source

I have been buying in a lot of low grade compost for use in the gardens, and have wondered how it might be amended. So I filled a load of large grow bags with this compost, amended it in a variety of different ways, and grew a crop of potatoes. The yield of potatoes was…

Time to turn the hot compost pile! I check the temperature of my compost pile and share how to turn a hot compost pile (and also add water) so it will break down faster into black gold to feed your garden. My new book: Organic Gardening for Everyone: Homegrown Vegetables Made Easy – order your…

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Speed of decomposition. heap heat and eventual results can vary a lot! See a range of possibilities for making compost. This is May and already there is a decent amount of new growth. I show you how we add it to heaps of varied types and dimensions here. A key tip is to balance green…