If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...

Composting is easy, whether you live in a small town or big city. Whether you live in a house in the suburbs or an apartment in the city, you can compost, and it doesn’t have to be a time-consuming ...

Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency (Cold Springs Press, 2014), by Chris Peterson and Philip Schmidt, shows you exactly how to build dozens of projects for a self-sufficient lifestyle, with ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (Mass Appeal) – Reduce waste, create soil and save money by composting! Claire Cuozzo and Diana Vasquez from the Center for Eco Technology in Florence showed us how to create our own ...

A large plastic garbage bin with a lid A drill A 1/4 inch drill bit 2 bungee cords Use the drill to create holes all over the plastic garbage can, including the lid and the bottom to allow air to ...

The only place it’s hard to compost is an apartment. So declares Jackie Trimble of Washington State University Master Gardeners. She highly recommends the do-it-yourself approach of getting food ...

Composting is a great idea that helps you and the planet at the same time. But all that stuff is going to break down at different rates, and depending on what you put in there and how soon you want to ...

On a microscopic level, composting refers to a biological process where bacteria, fungi and even worms break down organic material to generate a product that looks like soil but is technically a soil ...

Editor’s note: This is an installment of the feature DIY Adventures, in which reporter Penny Nakamura tackles a home project and reports about the process. It’s often called black gold, and it’s easy ...