Although you can start throughout the year, choosing to start your heap during particular seasons can aid your composting ...

On a warm Saturday morning in September, Mégane Simões and Sara Dufner — the volunteer managers of the Northern Liberties ...

Rather than let leaves stay on the lawn or send them to the landfill, horticulturist David Trinklein recommends two ways of ...

For the latest episode of “On the Job,” Priya Krishna spent a night picking up compost with Paul Campbell, who removes ...

Newspapers these days are primarily printed with soy-based inks, which makes them safe to compost. In addition to composting, ...

Leaves. Useful to the tree. Great for jumping in. Not much fun to clean up. Find out what you should be doing with those ...

Leverett resident Ben Goldberg is well-known for displaying worm bins and fielding questions about vermiculture, also known ...

Beautiful as they are, colorful autumn leaves can be a real clean up process. Instead of bagging them up or letting them blow ...

Moldy pumpkins can be added to outdoor compost bins, but they should not be placed ... all but the hottest compost piles, so it’s best to throw diseased plants in the trash or burn them in ...

Surrounded by carved pumpkins once spooky season ends? This expert has got the sustainable answer to re-use them ...

From carving jack-o-lanterns to baking pies, pumpkins are a staple of fall festivities and Halloween. According to the USDA, American farmers produced more than 1.6 billion pounds of pumpkins last ...

Beautiful as they are, colorful autumn leaves can be a real clean up process. Instead of bagging them up or letting them blow away, you can turn them into a valuable resource for your garden.