Homemade compost is a vital ingredient of any sustainable garden, but there is no one-size-fits-all approach to making it. There are several types of composting worth exploring – each with its own ...

The promise is simple. A small backyard setup is supposed to transform all sorts of kitchen waste into a nutrient-dense compost, a material so prized by gardeners that they gave it the nickname “black ...

All In for Milford will host the event, dubbed "Talking Trash," next week.

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. It wasn’t until Samin Nosrat began working at Chez Panisse that she was ...

If you’ve just started composting, you might wonder how to speed up compost so it’s completely decomposed and usable. It’s not hard to do! As long as you have the right balance of greens to browns, ...

Gardening experts Monty Don and Alan Titchmarsh have shares the common mistake that attracts rats to your garden this spring.

Which compost tumbler is best? You can create nutrient-rich compost with yard and kitchen waste, moisture, time and air. The first three components are readily available, but how do you incorporate ...

A little after 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 18, roughly 25 tons of steaming compost was dropped on the sidewalk in front of Joan ...

Gardeners may be seeing more rats in their gardens this spring, but there are ways to deter them, according to Monty Don and Alan Titchmarsh.