Bill Kerr says that increasing the organic and microbe content of your soil is the first step to ensuring healthier crops and ...

Nera Leather Tanning asks…….What is the difference between ‘biodegrading’ and ‘composting’? The first difference is that composting provides the Earth with nutrients once the material has ...

As autumn paints our gardens with vibrant hues of red, orange, and yellow, the inevitable task of leaf disposal looms large for many gardeners. While burning leaves might seem like a quick and easy ...

As autumn paints our gardens with vibrant hues, fallen leaves become a gardener's treasure trove for enriching soil and ...

One way to do your part is composting, but there are some entry barriers: space, equipment, and perhaps most notably, the smell and pests that often go along with composting. So as we wrap up our ...

This question of use is one of the main pillars of the human composting philosophy. In the summer of 2019, the rapid soil transformation process, framed as an alternative to traditional burial or ...

According to Bishop Isidore of Seville, who lived in the 7th century, the Latin word mus (“mouse”) shares a root with the word humus (“compost”). Naturally, Latin was considered a strong argument in ...

and the ‘Indore Process of Humus Manufacture’ devised by Sir Albert Howard in his work in India, described in ‘The Living Soil’ (E.B. Balfour). These systems favor “hot” composting by ...

Humus is decomposed organic matter that has ... begin by spading 3- to 4-inches of compost into the soil. Spading is much less disruptive to soil aggregates and is useful in starting to break ...

Dark and loose but not too loose, humus is composed of decaying organic matter such as plant material and small organisms. The compost and organic materials in commercial garden soil are mixed ...