1:10 p.m. July 21, 2025: An earlier version of this article referred to an independent review board, contracted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as the Organics Material Review Institute. The ...

No matter how much you make, there’s never enough compost to go around. So pick your system and get started. By Margaret Roach How’s that compost coming? If you live in a New York City apartment, it ...

A heap with no walls, or a box with one open side, makes it a lot easier and therefore more likely you’ll actually turn it. You can DIY your own compost bin or buy one. Either way, make the box larger ...

Re: “Compost happens. But how can you take advantage of it in your own garden?” May 5 news story. Your article on composting left out a very efficient method that is ideally suited to Colorado’s ...

Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. Here's How As far as acts of rebellion go, ...

When I work in the herb garden, I prefer to work without gardening gloves. That way my hands can touch the microbes and other microscopic organisms and the creatures that make the soil alive. I am ...

Greg Pryor began composting yard and food waste for San Francisco in 1996, and today he oversees nine industrial-sized composting sites in California and Oregon that turn discarded banana peels, ...