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Compost is useful as fertilizer but it also generates heat, and heat can be useful. Therefore, compost can be doubly useful. That bit of reasoning has been in play at UNH’s Durham campus since 2013.

A global study has found that adding biochar to organic waste composting can significantly reduce emissions of potent ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - The power to heat a greenhouse can come from compost and ultimately can help sustain people everywhere, summer and winter. That's the basic belief that has led the people who ...

MONTPELIER – Some folks talk about compost piles as if they were furnaces. They have a good point. No secret: Properly heaped and cultivated, the leftovers of our fields, forests, kitchens — and yes, ...

Putrefaction. Fermentation. That’s what vegetable scraps in a kitchen garbage or landfill go through. It’s also called anaerobic decomposition, which occurs in oxygen-poor environments. As ...

Some gardeners have asked if composting garden, yard and food waste is sustainable or beneficial to the environment since the composting process generates lots of carbon dioxide, the principal ...

As the year comes to an end, find out what gardening jobs still to be tackled for the "winter wind down." Fhese 5 steps will ...

Halloween pumpkins have begun rotting and many people will have food scraps from Thanksgiving, but these don’t have to be thrown away. Composting can give food and organic waste a new life and reduce ...

Look familiar? If you have these in your garden, the coming cold weather doesn’t mean you have to give up on them ripening. Sangjib Min MCT The cost of greenhouses has lowered quite a lot, and if ...