Articles: compost
Compost: Small Farm-Style
With the right strategies and practices, composting on a small farm is surprisingly easy and inexpensive. Just follow these steps…
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Fermented Plant Juice: A Drink Only a Garden Could Love
Everyone loves a refreshing, fermented, nutritious drink…even your garden! Take your fermentation skills out of the kitchen and into the…
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How to Grow Mushrooms on Woodchip
These days, growing mushrooms is all the rage. It is extremely simple, and they will grow pretty much anywhere —…
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Optimize Your Soil with Cover Cropping
Make use of these slow gardening months by preparing your soil for the year ahead! Cover cropping creates nutrient-rich soil…
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Composting and Recycling Mushrooms
Beyond guaranteeing a bountiful harvest, cultivating mushrooms on various surfaces has plenty of benefits. Growing, composting, and recycling mushrooms reduces…
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Bokashi Bins: Easy and Affordable Kitchen Composting
Looking for a new way to compost? With Bokashi bins, the organic matter from your compost is broken down and turned…
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How to Use Vinegar Extracts to Enrich Your Soil
Want to enrich your soil and get the most out of your garden? Mastering soil amendments is a must! Soil amendments,…
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Do It Yourself This Season: Summer DIY Projects
Summer is a time to be outside and enjoy the much-needed sunshine. And what’s more fun than creating something yourself…
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Food for Your Garden: Starting a Traditional Compost Pile in Your Yard
As a society, we make a lot of waste, especially in this culture of on-the-go single-serve disposables. What can we…
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The Phases of Composting
Although the stages of composting are very closely intertwined, each separate one has its own value and needs to be…
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How to Create a Nitrogen-Rich, Compost-Fed Soil Bed on Your Patio
If you have an unused stretch of patio, why not make it into a garden? Turning a concrete slab into…
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How We’re Helping to Close the Food Waste Loop
By Jill Kiedaisch, Content and Brand Manager In July 2020, Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law will go into effect. It calls…
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The Insatiable Call of Composting
James McSweeney is a composting consultant and educator who has been an ardent proponent and collaborator in the community composting…
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Composting with Animals: Common Applications
When you think of a typical farm, you probably think of going out to feed the animals with a bucket…
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Composting: Breaking Down the Core Principles
Composting is about more than just flinging your food scraps into a heap in your backyard. It’s about figuring out…
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Composting as if it Mattered
Composting is more than a way to minimize waste and supplement your garden. It is a method which can be…
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