Now is the time. Composting is a great opportunity to increase your sustainability at home and put your food scraps to use in a variety of ways. Best of all, it’s quite easy to get started and even easier to stick with once it’s a part of your daily routine. You can turn your ...
Making compost is pretty simple, once you get started: Choose a site for the compost pile. Choose a structure. Add the compost materials. Care for and feed the compost pile. Collect the finished compost for use. Choose a Site Where to place your compost pile is an important thing to cons...
With the current focus on sustainability and greening our early childhood environments and schools it may be time to rethink how we deal with the food scraps that are produced each day at meal and snack times. Composting is one way we can shift our thinking from food waste to food being re...
Composting is amazing – it’s incredibly sustainable and helps keep soils healthy. Compost reduces waste otherwise destined for landfill and helps create rich material to grow food at home. So, what exactly is hot composting and how can you get started? What is hot composting? Hot composting ...
However, if your pile is large, kept moist, and allowed to have some air circulation, it will generally get hot enough to kill off the seeds. Manure Herbivore animal manure is excellent composting material. Unlike with your garden, you do not need to age the manure. Just alternate the lay...
A composting primer: How to get startedCarole Feldman
Composting is the process of helping organic matter from your household to decompose. Starting to compost is a great way to decrease the amount of material you send to the local landfill. It also produces a nutrient-rich plant food for the garden!
Advice For Composting Beginners Our experts thought back to the very early years in their own composting journey and considered the advice they wish they had known when they first started out. “I wish someone had told me to start as simple as possible. Figure out one method at a time and...
vermicomposting system started is the hardest part since you’ll need to buy materials and get yourself a sufficient number of worms to begin with (and not all worms are suitable!), but after that, all it takes to maintain a vermicomposting system is feeding it regularly with kitchen scraps...
More About Composting To Help You Get Started 1. How To Make Compost Gardening A Fun Activity If you think composting seems to be a mundane task, well, it should not be. Think of all the benefits you get, and quality time you can spend with your family if you do it together.Making ...