The finished compost sells for $120 per yard or $10 per bag.

Lanette Sobel checks on the progress of a compost pile at Fertile Earth Worm Farm. New county proposals could clear the way for small-scale composting operations like hers. D.A. Varela ...

Since biblical times, farmers have utilized crop residues and animal manure to build soil and enhance crop production. Before the agricultural revolution in the mid-20th century, farming was ...

Last week, David White closed the books on a grant-funded composting initiative, ending a two-year program based in the Ojai Valley which served schools and community gardens in several local cities.

Composting — a term used and promoted by the environmentally minded, but not something all of us are all-knowing about. If you’re a New York City resident, however, you should probably begin getting ...

Composting is both an art and a science, especially when it comes to backyard composting. It’s that perfect balance of ingredients that creates a mini-ecosystem for microorganisms to thrive, breaking ...

This may be one of those cases where bigger isn’t necessarily better, at least when it comes to turning waste into compost. The county’s contract with Hawaiian Earth Recycling, inked just days before ...

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Reporting for this story was supported by the Climate Equity Reporting Project at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In the first few years after Monique Figueiredo founded Compostable LA ...

A bulldozer mixes a composting windrow at Spurt Industry's composting facility in Wixom, Michigan. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...