The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing environment for plants. Composting is easy and inexpensive, and ...

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 ...

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.

Learn three ways to keep composting through winter for nutrient-rich soil ready for spring planting.

Residents in Alachua County can get free kitchen composting supplies this coming weekend as part of an effort to cut down on food waste.

Scraping kitchen waste is the first step toward an effective home composting system. Hector Amezcua Sacramento Bee file It is estimated that 30 percent of residential waste can be composted (according ...

Welcome to Table Scraps, an intermittent series on the growing problem of food waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of April 1, 2025, composting (which turns food scraps into nutrients) is now mandatory in New York City. Even if you don’t live ...