Composting is a great way to send organic food scraps back to the earth, but did you know this common trash item is actually ...

When you think of kitchen composting, food scraps and coffee grounds may spring to mind. However, there's another item in ...

If you compost at home, there's an extra ingredient you could be adding to the bin that's already lying around — and it doesn ...

Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency (Cold Springs Press, 2014), by Chris Peterson and Philip Schmidt, shows you exactly how to build dozens of projects for a self-sufficient lifestyle, with ...

Composting is easy, whether you live in a small town or big city. Whether you live in a house in the suburbs or an apartment in the city, you can compost, and it doesn’t have to be a time-consuming ...

Savvy gardeners are always looking for ways to simplify gardening tasks, so it’s no surprise that blender composting has been catching on in a big way. Compared to traditional composting, “composting” ...

You probably know to add vegetable scraps and other plant-based items to your compost bin, but if you're due for a pantry ...

Worms can compost kitchen scraps and shredded paper much faster than the aerobic compost process utilized in most commercial backyard compost bins. A vermicomposting (worm composting) bin can be built ...

You know that there are a lot of kitchen scraps that you can add to create nutrient-dense compost, but here's one you might ...

While items like eggshells, fruit peels, and soggy produce are common compost pile additions, this more decorative item is ...

Editor’s note: This is an installment of the feature DIY Adventures, in which reporter Penny Nakamura tackles a home project and reports about the process. It’s often called black gold, and it’s easy ...