Compost / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...composted. See our page here on how to set up a backyard compost. If there are local bylaws that prevent home composting or a lot of snakes or vermin etc that might wish to come and make a warm compost pile a home, with luck your municipality collects compostable material. If you have a compost bin or pile at home, dea...

...composting, disposing of construction waste and other easy lifestyle changes to reduce your environmental footprint in these pages :  How your diet affects climate change and how to eat with less impact  Use your kitchen waste as compost to grow food in a backyard lasagna garden How to dispose of construction was...

...Compost or manure on top of leaves layers the lasagna Here is where you will need to add a thin layer of compost - sheep, chicken, sea compost, pick whichever kind of poop resonates with you or which smell you can most comfortably tolerate. Some compost is very strong, so if you have spare topsoil, mix them together or...

...composters are a great way to recycle kitchen waste into next years tasty tomato and zucchini crops Some leaves can be added to vegetable compost, but larger quantities can be composted in a pile of their own. As with vegetable compost, occasionally turning leaves over with a garden fork speeds up the decomposition. C...