You can often find aged manure at your local garden center beside the bagged compost, but farmers and neighbors with chickens or other livestock are often willing to gift buckets of fresh manure ...

After the flood this summer, the Muscatine Transfer Station helped provide mulch for trees at the riverside, but their supply ...

If you’re like me—an urban apartment dweller with zero outdoor ... I needed to transfer the food scraps to a plastic bag in order to haul it to the compost collector. There were a few instances when I ...

After all, soil is the medium of life for plants, providing a place for roots to spread out and take up water and nutrients. At the garden center, you’ll typically see two bagged options ...

People with large yards who bag their grass are often only too happy to dump it near my garden. Local farmers are also great sources of free mulch. This might be something only rural peeps like me ...

Compost is sometimes referred to as "black gold ... so people think 'it's not for me'," he added. "If it turns to sludge, people just give up. Councils do supply free or subsidised bins but ...

2005). With the exception of C, H, and O, which plants obtain from air and water, plants derive the remaining 14 elements from the soil or through fertilizers, manures, and amendments (Parikh ...

The result is an organic approach to waste handling that also creates a fertilizer—just like regular compost. That's not to say that these ... Fertilizers can cost a lot of money if you buy them in a ...

Starting next month, all Staten Islanders will be required to separate their organic waste from the rest of their trash.

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Firefighters worked for several hours to douse a fire near SeaWorld San Diego on Sunday. Firefighters with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department doused a mulch fire that ...

25 (UPI) --A reptile rescue group in England is caring for a toad found in a bag of salad that was returned ... "He is in a nice little box, he's got some soil and some leaves to hide in, he's ...