Compost works well as a soil amendment, but you can also use compost as a liquid fertilizer. When compost and water are steeped together, the resulting liquid is known as compost tea, an easy to apply ...

The recipe, one of the first to appear in José Andrés’ newest book, “Vegetables Unleashed,” was “conceived in a fit of passion,” the chef wrote. “Vegetable scraps from your compost bin.” [Excuse me, ...

The recipe, one of the first to appear in José Andrés’ newest book, “Vegetables Unleashed,” was “conceived in a fit of passion,” the chef wrote. “Vegetable scraps from your compost bin.” [Excuse me, ...

These butterscotch, chocolate chip and oat cookies are a crowd pleaser! Welcome to GMA 25 Days of Cookies. For 25 days, we are featuring cookie recipes that are perfect to make for the holiday season.

With a few extra steps, your garden can become the gift that keeps giving. It's a gift Gwenne Baile calls black gold. It's compost, and she makes it from leaves, vegetable scraps and water. She uses ...

VALPARAISO | The city's first try at turning out a Class A compost it can sell to residents didn't go so well. Eight test piles of five cubic yards each were set up at the Valparaiso sewage treatment ...

Midden, rot heap, dressing, leaf mold, wormery, windrow, smells like green spirit, muck, bokashi … all terms for the black gold that we know as compost. Compost creates nutrient-rich humus, balances ...

Food waste stinks. It smells up the kitchen, attracts pests, and fuels climate change, constituting 22 percent of discarded municipal solid waste in landfills, according to estimates from the United ...

My office is just down the road from the Washington State University composting facility. It processes more than 10,000 pounds of organic waste every month. That’s a lot of compost! I talked about ...

Compost tea is a concentrated blast of nutrients for plants and soil. You can make it at home for free. Pat, a retired science teacher and experienced gardener, showed me how it’s done at her Mukilteo ...

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