I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I ...

Peat has been used in container plant production since the 1960s. Highly porous and able to hold water, peat makes an ideal rooting and growing medium. But harvesting peat (and draining valuable ...

Lead-contaminated soil in urban parks, gardens, and schoolyards could be made safer by adding composted organic waste, new research suggests. The tactic could reduce the quantity of the toxic metal ...

Question: I got a load of “composted” horse manure for my garden from my friend. It looks to me that it isn’t really composted all the way as there are “apples” of manure in it. Can I just put it in ...

Did you know that many of your paper products can be composted? From tissue paper to wrapping paper to egg cartons and more, ...

While natural fibres are technically brown compostable materials, not everything that goes into a garment is written on the care label Whether it’s the drawer you keep old tote bags in or a forgotten ...

Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to have bound the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies ...

FLORENCE — The Colorado Burial Preserve accepted Colorado's first composted human remains into their burial grounds. Participants were invited to work the soil back in the earth by spreading it over a ...