Composting isn’t just for leftovers and soiled napkins. You can now compost your body after you die in certain states, turning it into a rich soil. It’s called human composting or natural organic ...

A $10,000 Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Graduate Scholarship has helped Carolyn Wilson begin her graduate research thesis. The Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture student plans to determine the ...

Well, you knew it was coming. If you were hoping that those last few green and rock-hard tomatoes would magically turn into truly vine-ripened beauties, that ship sailed at approximately 4:32 a.m.

'Fall is a great time to supercharge your compost with shredded leaves,' adds Colleen Falicki, founder of Back to Earth Compost. Once you collect fallen leaves, use a garden shredder (from Amazon) or ...

EDMONTON - Q: We have hard, not-terribly-fertile soil in our garden; the vegetables do not produce very well. Even the onions were not good last year. Could you please recommend amendments to soften ...

So you've got your compost ready for the next gardening season. Maybe you even learned how to make your own DIY compost. But how much compost does your garden soil really need? Composting is one of ...

We’ve talked about the various ways leaves can be repurposed to help enrich your soil and encourage pollinators, but what about our garden trimmings and all that discarded food we tend to throw away?

One of the most commonly asked questions in gardening is ‘what’s the difference between mulch and compost?’ Both are usually brown and soil-like, both help nurture plant growth – so how come they are ...

Body composting is an alternative to traditional burial or cremation that has spurred the interest of many Texans.

WHEN we die, we're faced with two routes through which we can depart the earthly realm: Burial or cremation. But what if there was another way, one that was better for the environment and left our ...