Grow healthier plants and reduce food waste by starting a compost pile. Learn what to compost, what to avoid, and the simple ...

Gardening season is winding down, but you may still have some questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...

Do you have fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, clippings of grass from mowing? Compost it this summer. All you need is a 5-gallon bucket. A community compost program started by Solid Waste ...

Grow healthier plants and reduce food waste by starting a compost pile. Learn what to compost, what to avoid, and the simple tools you’ll need.

Welcome to Table Scraps, an intermittent series on the growing problem of food waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — On Earth Day, about two dozen Jefferson County residents attended a workshop to learn about the organic material they have in their homes that can stay out of landfills and help return ...

What if you didn't have to toss those used and dripping coffee pods? Or try to recycle them? Or avoid buying them altogether? That's the idea behind compostable coffee pods, developed in 2015 for ...

I compost as much as I can, from food scraps to coffee grounds (and the filters) to used paper towels. This is what people do in many other parts of the country, including the San Francisco Bay area, ...