Would you wear a plaster grown from fungus? US-based bioengineer Aakriti Jain and Parisian industrial designer Guillian Graves think so. They also want think you should grow it yourself in a tabletop ...

Here’s when you should apply compost for healthier plants.

This video is relevant to all gardeners, whether or not you dig/till the soil. There is no right / wrong amount of compost. My explanations are from 40 years of an organic approach, using no synthetic ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: About a year ago I removed my lawn. I now have a very low maintenance yard that conserves water, but in the process I have less green material to add to my compost pile. Can you ...

With summer upon us, you're no doubt tending your garden. Which hopefully means you're composting too. Using food waste to enrich your soil benefits the earth in a number of ways, including reducing ...

Most gardeners in southern Ohio struggle with hard clay soil, making it difficult to grow nice vegetables. Conventional fertilizers like 10-10-10 make the problem worse, doing nothing to build healthy ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In a 1960s-era edition of Rodale’s “Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening,” the lengthy entry for compost reads like an ode to organic soil amendments: “Here in ...