If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...

It’s a pretty simple equation: you’ll need browns, greens, water, oxygen and patience. The result is gold. Actually, the result is compost, but if you have a garden, you know compost is its own form ...

File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...

Food science and horticulture experts teamed up to study if food waste could lay the foundation for growing the next bunch of ...

Rev. Houston Cypress, with Love the Everglades Movement, picks up a handful of soil while visiting a Miccosukee Tribe garden on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The garden will soon benefit from a grant that ...

Composting is simple. All you need is a kitchen pail, food scraps and a napkin. That’s the trick, Robert Reed said. A paper towel at the bottom of the bin can soak up the moisture and smells, keeping ...

The City of Iowa City plans to expand its composting facility while reducing food waste and greenhouse gas emissions thanks to a recent $4 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant. The ...

Thomas Petersen from Evers Ridge Farm shows the results of his composting process. These worm castings, or worm poop, is an effective, environmentally friendly alternative to conventional fertilizers.

When Christine Datz-Romero and her husband started the Lower East Side Ecology Center in 1987, where New Yorkers could drop off paper, metal, glass and plastic for recycling, they beat New York’s ...

As Colorado aims to hit ambitious climate action goals, local communities, including those along the Western Slope, are ...