Learn how to make your own potting soil potting mix ingredients combining dirt, well-aged compost, and a handful of sand for good drainage. Gather your own potting mix ingredients to form an ...

A handful of elementary schools in the Kansas City metropolitan area are showing children how to re-use tons of wasted food through composting.After lunch at James Elementary School, the focus turns ...

Costa shares some simple tips to create compost for the garden. The key to creating good compost is to think like a microbe, Costa says; like us, they need air, water and food. Get that right, and the ...

Master Gardener Larry Steele holds red worm casting Lynn Ke.jpg Master Gardener Larry Steele holds a handful of hardworking red worms, which turn kitchen waste into nutritious castings. (Lynn Ketchum) ...

Many people start composting for practical reasons. Home composting your leaves, grass clippings, garden waste and food scraps reduces the amount of garbage you generate. Plus, compost is essential ...

California's Integrated Waste Management Board estimates that Californians throw away 5 million tons of food scraps each year - which means there's a lot of potential for composting those unwanted ...

I am doing my best to compost, but the materials I have available are oak and maple leaves during the fall and spring and plenty of grass clippings and weeds during the summer. My compost pile doesn’t ...

Before she graduated last year, Meradith Hoddinott ’12 wrote about the expansion of the college’s composting program from a nascent effort by “a handful of forward-thinking students” to an ...

When the leaves fall this autumn, put them to work. Their job is composting; the result is a rich-looking dark-brown organic material called humus. Humus, which most people simply call compost, “adds ...

WEBVTT SHE'S HERE TO EXPLAIN. KELLY: I WAS AT JAMES ELEMENTARY IN KANSAS CITY. PART OF THIS GETS A LITTLE MESSY, BUT IT'S ALL PART OF THE LESSON. AT LUNCHTIME HERE AT JAMES ELEMENTARY, THE FOCUS IS ON ...