Composting at home has many benefits, from enriching the soil with nutrients to reducing methane emissions by diverting food waste from landfills. People typically compost fruit peels, vegetable ...

Down the back stairs of the clubhouse kitchen, on a plot lost among the expanse of tightly trimmed fairways and greens, weeks-old food is buried under a tarp and mulch and left to decompose. But this ...

At Woodend Farm on the Scottish Borders, manure produced by the farm’s 32,000 free-range hens is mixed with woodchip, chopped ...

This is a great option for small indoor spaces. Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues ...

Bokashi composting lets you create finished compost indoors in just a few weeks. First popularized in Japan in the 1980s, bokashi composting is a unique, indoor composting method that has a number of ...

Bokashi uses fermentation to break down food waste into beneficial pre-compost. The process takes place inside an airtight container, making it odor- and pest-free. Unlike traditional composting, you ...

Horticulturalist Daniel Cunningham puts in a layer of food scraps to make compost inside a Bokashi compost bucket at the Texas AgriLife Research Center. Rose Baca / Staff Photographer By now ...

If you’re looking for a way to turn nearly all of your food waste into nutritious garden food, bokashi composting is for you. Bokashi composting is not exactly composting. It’s really fermentation, ...

MANILA, Philippines - “Green Cities†, this year’s Earth Day theme, calls attention to the important issues of urban sprawl and food security and how they challenge the sustainability of our ...