Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to make large batches. Pour blender compost around plants, or into trenches, compost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That said, not everything you typically chuck can be rerouted to the compost bin. The NRDC cautions against composting oil, lard, ...

Composting is an essential kitchen task. When I began composting our kitchen scraps (I live in area with a great municipal compost program), we cut our trash output by more than half. Now, when I see ...

“Composting is the human version of re-creating what Mother Nature does out in the wild”: mixing together organic materials to facilitate healthy decomposition, says Rebecca Louie, founder of the ...

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If you’ve been thinking about recycling all of that yard waste into compost, now’s the time to get busy. You’ll have plenty of prime ingredients coming up shortly in the form of falling leaves, ...

Want to take your garden to the next level? Composting benefits the environment, plus, it’s a fun way to nourish your plants for the best growth possible. If you’re new to composting, I talked to ...

The first question most people have when considering home composting is critters—won’t a pile of food scraps in your yard attract rodents and raccoons? Unfortunately, the answer is yes, but there are ...

The promise is simple. A small backyard setup is supposed to transform all sorts of kitchen waste into a nutrient-dense compost, a material so prized by gardeners that they gave it the nickname “black ...

The best compost bins can handle everything from your morning coffee and eggs, to the veggie stir fry you had for dinner and any additional scraps, peels and grounds over the course of a day.