Whole or carved pumpkins make excellent compost, but not all pumpkins should be composted. Every year, about 1.3 billion pumpkins are thrown in the trash in the United States. However, carved, whole, ...

Here's how to keep composting in winter so you'll have finished compost in spring. beekeepx / Getty Images Gardeners often assume outdoor compost piles stop working in cold weather, but beneficial ...

By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.

Some food scraps, like meat and dairy, shouldn’t be composted in an outdoor bin, but can you compost bread? Most types of bread, pasta, and baked goods are usually safe to compost as long as you ...

Gardeners are encouraged to compost leaves this fall to improve soil health. With plenty of leaves, grass clippings and garden debris available, residents can create compost piles that benefit the ...

So you have a compost bin. You understand the environmental and economic benefits of composting, and now you're saving all your kitchen scraps to add to the growing pile of black gold -- rich organic ...

Compost is a vital part of any good garden, providing nutrient-rich fertilizer from household waste that would otherwise end ...

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 ...

Gardeners often assume outdoor compost piles stop working in cold weather, but beneficial microbes can continue to break down compost all winter. The problem is that composting takes much longer in ...