What does it take to reclaim your kitchen as the creative center of your home, where you’re unafraid to try new and exciting ...

The bad smell of a compost pile is often due to a lack of oxygen. Carbon comes from sources like dry leaves, sawdust, ...

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

Compost is a wonderful soil conditioner, fertilizer and tonic for your garden. And best of all, you can make it yourself!

With a well-thought-out layout, this skoolie managed to integrate not only a living room, kitchen, and bedroom inside, but ...

Nourish Beauty; Recycle Peace; Blessed Be. Mary Lucille Hays lives in Birdland near White Heath. She is serious about answering mail from readers. Consider subscribing to support your small-town ...

By Amy-Lynn Albertson N.C. Cooperative Extension Compost is available from the city of Salisbury for free on Fridays from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at 1955 Grubb Ferry Road in Salisbury. It is pick up only call, ...

The Town of Mountain Village presents a free opportunity to compost pumpkins and other compostable materials after Halloween, Oct. 30-Nov. 30 (or until containers are full). This free composting event ...

Halloween night may be filled with frights, but garbage day is where the real horror lurks. Each year, thousands of discarded jack-o-lanterns and rotting pumpkins are hauled off to landfills by the ...

Vermicomposting (worm composting) has benefits for everyone, whether you want to divert kitchen scraps from the landfill, compost in small spaces, or create a natural fertilizer for your plants.

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 ...