Composting

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• Commercial Composting: Why One Restaurant Recycles

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 460
  Cooking Up a Story: Stories Saving the planet may well stem from the small act of many, than bigger actions undergone by the few. One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide program, recycling its food waste into reusable garden compost—the owner explains her reasons for doing so. I started composting ...
  14 hours ago

• And They Came

  
  Plants and Stones — Authority: 118
  2005 was the date on this jar of honey. A molasses like liquid floated on top of the crystalized honey. Becky wanted it out of the cupboard. To the compost bin it went. Our days have been cold and there have been few insects working. Today was different. The sun was strong and I was working in shirtsleeves by ...
  22 hours ago

• Leaf Composting this Sunday November 8th!

  
  Sustainable Flatbush — Authority: 110
  This month Flatbush residents will have two local opportunities to keep their autumn leaves out of the landfill! Sustainable Flatbush is proud to be part of Project LeafDrop : “a volunteer-run, neighborhood-based coalition of gardeners and greening partners who are harvesting residential leaves for compost this ...
  2 days ago

• The Ways Of The Organic Gardener

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 441
  Ecological gardening is an exciting, satisfying and inexpensive method of gardening. Despite the many benefits of this approach few folks have so far been able to fully appreciate the benefits, simply because most lack the required experience and understanding. What the organic gardener does is, essentially, a form of ...
  3 days ago

• Prevent Global Warming With Organic Gardening

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 441
  Organic gardening is an enjoyable, satisfying and cheap strategy of gardening. Despite the many benefits of this approach few folks have thus far been able to fully appreciate the benefits, simply because most lack the required understanding and experience. What the organic gardener does is, at the core, a form of ...
  3 days ago

• Massive On-Site Composting: The Eden Project Raises the Bar

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 723
  Image credit: The Eden Project The UKs Eden Project has long had our attention as a Treehuggers wonderland. From the 124 acre biome conservatories, to the rock concerts from Moby, Brian Wilson and PJ Harvey, to the recycled glass flutes they sell, created from bottles at their own restaurant, to hosting the ...
  3 days ago

• San Francisco’s Composting-Related Fruit Fly Invasion Solved With Home Remedies

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 529
  Now, here’s what I mean about “composting-related” – our new initiatives  in San Francisco are going to take a while to get used to, and during this transition I’ve noticed a whole bunch of fruit flies that weren’t around before. Maybe this is just me, but the guy at Cole’s Hardware says the $15 ...
  4 days ago

• Compost Bin Plans – DIY Composters & More!

  
  Compost Guy | Turning Wastes Into Resources — Authority: 91
  Hi Folks! Sorry I’ve let the site go silent for so long (yes, a recurring problem – haha). I think the important thing is that I don’t completely give up on it – nor will I likely ever do so (I’m kinda stubborn that way). As per usual, I’ve been spending most of my time over at Red Worm Composting - so I ...
  4 days ago

• Mulching leaves: Mowers, not just for lawns

  
  Toronto Gardens — Authority: 125
  This is one reason why I wish I had an electric lawn mower: to chop autumn leaves into bite-sized, easily composted pieces. This is a trick you can use now. My rickety, ancient push mower (all I can justify for my narrow strip of grass, which soon might disappear completely) doesnt have the ooomph required.Sarah and I ...
  4 days ago

• Compost with a Kick: Bokashicycle Brews First Large-Scale Food Waste Fermentation Operation

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 622
  Bokashi is a centuries-old Japanese method of recycling household food waste into all-natural compost .  By employing a special culture of yeast and other microorganisms, bokashi is a compact, odorless process that takes only days instead of weeks or months. Now the Bokashicycle company is breaking the ...
  5 days ago

• Compost Sifters and Soil Sieves - Sifting For the Finest Compost

  
  How to Garden Guide — Authority: 117
  If you’ve been composting for any length of time you will have discovered that most of the time your compost pile has parts of it ripen faster than others. You may have a wide array of composted materials, since some of use throw most anything in the pile, and larger items like tree branches [...]
  5 days ago

• Magical Mystery Tour

  
  Greenme: Sustainable Living Blog — Authority: 124
  I’m getting onto a bus with 11 other volunteers who have turned out at eight in the morning for voluntary duties with the British Trust For Conservation Volunteers (BTCV). The BTCV are large well established group and work with up to 300,000 volunteers a year throughout the UK and Ireland. One of BTCV’s guiding ...
  5 days ago

• Got trash? Want trash?

  
  theCLog — Authority: 490
  Great news: North Carolina’s Biomass Trader is at your service whether you’ve got trash or need some trashy materials. The site will even connect you to the 411 on composting, organic products and more. Check it out : Bookmark It
  6 days ago

• Use Organic Compost In Your Garden

  
  Going Green Power Blog — Authority: 133
  compost barrels Making your own compost has become a popular past time with todays gardeners and as an alternative to chemical fertilization of crops, its also very good for the environment.  Compost is organic and as such contains no chemicals or nitrates. When starting out in the garden, a common question ...
  6 days ago

• Thumbs Up to Raking!

  
  Garden Coach Providing Free Garden Help | GardenHelp.org — Authority: 118
  I’ve been pretty impressed with the number of rakes I’ve seen around the neighborhood this year. On a typical 30 minute dog walk this weekend, I passed several homeowners doing fall clean up. And, not one of them was using a petrol-hungry, pollution spewing blower to clean up fallen leaves. Instead, families and ...
  6 days ago

• You really dont need much space to compost

  
  The Rubbish Diet — Authority: 118
  Look, you can even get a wormery for your desk at work! available from Bubble House Hot on the heels of yesterdays post about my new Worm Cafe wormery , comes the news from Recycle Now that lack of space in the garden is one of the main reasons given by many people for not composting garden and household ...
  6 days ago

• Prefab Live Green House Built in One Day

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 723
  Photo: courtesy City of Sydney, Live Green house. The sustainability demonstration showcase house was erected in a single day, when it first appeared as part of Sydneys Art & About Festival last month. Now its on the move again, this time as an exhibit for the City of Sydneys participation in Australian ...
  6 days ago

• Bonfire Waste Recycled by SITA

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 140
  The United Kingdom is now in the midst of the fall season in which many people have outdoor parties.  These parties often times revolve around bonfires, which are both dangerous and illegal in the United Kingdom.  Even though most people know that bonfires are potentially dangerous and against the law, thousands of ...
  6 days ago

• Composting at schools: Students get into the act

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  When theyre done with lunch, students at an Oak Park school sort uneaten morsels into bins -- empty milk cartons and juice boxes into one receptacle, orange rinds and banana peels into another, and anything non-recyclable into a third, that one clearly labeled "landfill" to drive home the point. Hatch Elementary ...
  6 days ago

• What Happens To Jack After Halloween?

  
  Parenting Blog — Authority: 99
  “Who’s Jack?” my 7-year-old daughter asked when she saw me writing this post. Of course I was referring to the “spooky” carved pumpkin perched on our front gate, who I’m afraid is starting to get mouldy. So what to do with poor old Jack, now that Halloween has come and gone? 1. Take him to a Pumpkin ...
  1 week ago

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