We know: $70 is A LOT of money to spend on something to hold your apple cores. Especially when a plastic bucket works just fine. (For that price, it should also make you dinner … and wash the dishes ...

I began composting several years ago, mostly as an homage to my grandmother's garden, which she always nourished with compost. My mom bought me a compost pail for food scraps that I carry to my ...

There’s a particular smell that clings to old garden sheds, a mix of turned earth, rotting leaves, and something faintly ...

Is compost an amendment or a mulch? This discussion came up with a gardener friend as we talked about how we can affect the soils in our gardens. Compost can be both a mulch and an amendment -- it ...