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!

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 ...

Between Halloween pumpkin carving, Thanksgiving feasts and holiday parties, it can be the season of food waste. Luckily, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes. And record-breaking heatwaves are reshaping ...

If you want to grow a healthy, large crop of tomatoes, check out this TikTok experiment that tested which kitchen scraps ...