With an estimated 30–40% of the United States' food supply ending up as waste, according to the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical ...

Maryland grower Drew Haines earned third place nationally in a corn yield contest by returning to tillage and heavy compost ...

While most flowers lie dormant in the winter, the snowdrop is one that thrives. For those looking to spruce up their winter ...

And now more cities are implementing curbside composting to help them meet their sustainability goals. New York is currently rolling out a mandatory composting program that will soon be effect in ...

A Christmas cactus thrives when its soil mimics its natural rainforest home—moist, airy, and fast-draining to keep roots healthy. Experts say the best mix uses regular potting soil blended with ...

The town has received a $300,000 grant to install a new composting facility at the Kent transfer station where food scraps will be collected as part of a larger effort by the state to divert organic ...

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MIAMI — Miami-Dade County is setting a path towards scaling composting countywide. The proposed new ordinance will be seen by Miami-Dade commissioners on Thursday for a second reading and final vote.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nearly three years after the vast majority of Denver voters approved a ballot initiative requiring restaurants and apartment buildings to recycle and compost ...

Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month process transforms the human body into soil "so that our last act on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. When it comes to sustainability, many Americans separate their ...