Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment, and you’ll find “compost activators” offered. These mixtures contain beneficial microorganisms, ...

Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you’ll find “compost activators” offered. These mixtures contain beneficial micro-organisms, ...

Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you’ll find compost activators offered. These mixtures contain beneficial microorganisms, nutrients ...

I’ve heard that compost accelerators speed up composting and result in better compost. Are these claims true? Most independent studies have concluded that those products aren’t worth the expense. The ...

Using a compost starter can speed up the process.

Probably the oldest existing reference to the use of manure in agriculture is found on a set of clay tablets found in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) 1,000 years before Moses. The Bible, Sir Walter Raleigh ...

I’ve been feeling wasteful lately when I’m disposing of unused veggies or food scraps and with three children in the house, there is a lot of waste. Composting has been on my to-do list for some time ...