Confused about Compost?

One of the things I recommend over and over is adding compost to your vegetable garden each season.  Compost adds nutrients to the soil, breaks up clay, and helps the soil hold water longer.  All compost is not created equal, however.  Some compost is made in hot...

Beginning Composting

Fresh Compost Do you have one of those little kitchen compost pails someone gave you but have no idea what to do with the contents when it fills up?  Are you afraid you don’t have the stomach to make manure tea?  Confused about composting?  I can help with that....

Red wiggler worms

Worms are wonderful!  As people have rediscovered the usefulness of composting, growing their own vegetables and herbs, growing chickens, and other things that our ancestors did without thinking about it, they have also rediscovered vermiculture, or growing worms. ...