Professional Skateboarder Teaches Sustainability
In late April, at the first of a series of planned sustainability events at California Whole Foods…
Tomato Container Gardens
Tomato container gardens are an alternative to a traditional tomato garden. Tomatoes are one of the most…
Having a problem with slugs in your garden?
Solve it by appealing to their problem drinking. If you have slugs in your garden, there is…
International Compost Awareness Week
The theme for 2006 is The Possibilities are Endless … Compost! Across the United States and Canada,…
The Animal Farm Accountability Question
If you don’t belong to the ‘grist mill’ perhaps you should at least read this article… Old…
Vermicomposting? What’s THAT? Composting with vermin?
Aaaaaa hahaha.. honest to God, that’s the first thing that went through my mind when I first…
Dry Cost is High…
It’s going to raise the price of food. It’s going to make some food less robust. What…
Why Compost?
Why compost?Composting is an easy, environmentally beneficial way to turn yard and kitchen wastes into a dark,…
The High Cost of Animal Agriculture
Thanks to Susan Weiner at Farm Sanctuary for pointing us to that organization’s network of websites —…
Have YOU Ratified the Kyoto Protocol?
Alan Durning has posted a great piece on individual climate responsibility: On Wednesday, February 16, the Kyoto…
Delivery!
We now have at least fifty bags of green grass clippings on the side of the garage just waiting to compost.
Can anyone say ‘Grass Clippings’?
I was bringing my daughter home from a birthday part for one of the children she babysits for… We passed a man on a riding mower going over what looked to be a good two acres of smooth green grass… it was beautiful. As we got closer, I realized he was BAGGING it. And of course, my composting mind went to, “I wonder what he DOES with all that grass?” And I started slowing down…