About 165- to 200 tons of old pumpkins are recycled for composting at the Doubting Thomas Farms near Kragnes, Minn. Between 165 to 200 tons of pumpkins are piling up near the Doubting Thomas Farms ...

Chickens peck at food scraps in a compost pile at Black Dirt Farm, a chicken farm that uses food waste as feed. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger Chicken farmers who also run compost operations say a ...

Farmers Dan Heryer and Brooke Salvaggio wear matching gray rubber boots. They both have the hardy, outdoorsy look of people who eat a lot of organic vegetables—unsurprising, as they make a living ...

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the ...

For folks who don’t farm or garden, a malodorous pile of manure is usually a fly-attracting eyesore to be avoided. But most farmers and gardeners won’t turn up their noses at such a deposit; where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The farm, which for nearly a year has been the subject of nuisance complaints from neighbors, faces four code violations, ...

Composting is one of the most effective ways to manage livestock manure and convert the waste into a valuable soil amendment. With fertiliser prices soaring almost every month, making own compost ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X WAUNAKEE, Wis. – Jeff Endres can think of lots of reasons for composting manure. He farms with his ...

To make compost gather enough materials to make a pile at least three feet deep, mix the dry materials such as fallen leaves, shredded tree branches, cardboard, newspaper; hay or straw; wood shavings.