Most organic household waste ends up in landfills where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce ...

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Ron Taylor marvels, sitting on a tree stump near the center of a giant earthen spiral garden as the sun slowly sets. Marvels at his neighbors harvesting herbs and potatoes near him. Marvels at the ...

Gabriel Schiering (Oakes ’24, business management economics) decided to attend UC Santa Cruz for a variety of reasons. He was drawn to the university for its reputation for environmental justice and ...

Which plants like peat-based compost, and which flourish more with manure? Get the dirt on this nutrient-rich soil additive.

If you've ever walked past neatly bagged piles of leaves or branches sitting at the curb, you've probably seen something most people ignore… but gardeners quietly get excited about. What looks like ...

A Bredasdorp community food garden has become Shoprite’s 300th supported project, turning household waste into compost and fresh produce through a circular farming model.

Federal money promised to Alaska for various sustainability projects has trickled in since the passage of the massive infrastructure bill in Washington, with municipal and tribal officials in Juneau ...

Rev. Houston Cypress, with Love the Everglades Movement, picks up a handful of soil while visiting a Miccosukee Tribe garden on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The garden will soon benefit from a grant that ...

SAN ANTONIO – Christiana Wren Rodgers loves to talk about the thousands of red wriggler worms she keeps in her backyard. She feeds them only the best scraps that come right out of the Alamodome’s ...

As a child, Joycelyn Chui often helped her grandmother in the kitchen. She would separate eggshells and onion peels in little bowls, to compost them in her grandmother’s garden. For Chui, sorting and ...