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Posts tagged “composting”

Who Knew? 75 Things You Can Compost

We have been composting kitchen scraps and garden clippings for awhile now, but Planet Green's recent list of "75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldn't," opened our eyes to a whole new worl...

Best Kitchen Composters

We have this pretty great arrangement whereby I keep a canister for kitchen scraps on my counter, and our neighbor, who has a small garden and compost bin behind her apartment, takes the scraps down e...

Book Review: Don't Throw It, Grow It!

For the apartment or house dweller without room or desire to compost, there is an alternative to tossing your kitchen scraps: grow them. I've done a potato, who hasn't? I've done a mango pit, whic...

Good Question: Best Product for Composting Under the Kitchen Sink?

From reader Heather in Chicago: I've been doing some research about kitchen composting, but have come up with very little useful how-to info. Are there viable/good options for composting under the kit...

San Francisco's Curbside Composting Program

You know all the jokes about San Francisco being "crunchy" and full of hippies? Well, this tidbit won't help squelch those rumors; we have a curbside composting program as part of our movement to g...