If you have a yard or even houseplants, those apple cores and banana peels aren’t trash. They’re gold. And shockingly, so much of that yard-healthy yumminess goes straight into the landfill. Enough that food waste is the largest component of municipal landfills! Photo courtesy: Compost-A-...
Cucumber ends, apple cores, carrot peels, cantaloupe rinds, avocado pits, an old pumpkin leftover from Halloween — any vegetable or fruit scrap will do. But grains also sprout from soil, which means you can throw stale bread, cereal, and pasta in your compost heap, too....