Carbon Farming: Our Way into the Future

Posted by Kat in Earth & Planet, Education 2 years, 9 months ago

“Carbon Footprint” has been a buzzword for the past decade. We know it is important to reduce more carbon from being released into our atmosphere, but what if it was possible to draw down the carbon that has already been released?

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Composting is the Easiest Way to Go Green

Posted by Dustin in Earth & Planet 6 years, 2 months ago

Are you looking for a way to make your life a little more sustainable? Composting is a great way to lower your environmental footprint while replenishing the soil and giving back to the earth. Here are three reasons why you should consider adding composting to your lifestyle. 

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46 Things You Didn't Know Were Compostable

Posted by Dustin in Earth & Planet, Education 6 years, 2 months ago

Composting is one of the easiest ways to go green and live a cleaner, more sustainable lifestyle. If you’re not composting yet, odds are you are generally in support of the practice (I mean, come on, who wants to make trash?) but I’m guessing you’re on the fence because you don’t feel like you toss enough compostables to make it worthwhile.

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Avid Composters Also CompostNow

Posted by Joe in Earth & Planet, Education, Tools & Technology 9 years, 10 months ago

I hate sending stuff to the landfill. When I’m cooking I put my vegetable scraps into a bowl. At the end of the day all the vegetable scraps, coffee grinds, and tea leaves will get dumped in my backyard compost pile. Meat and bones, however, are more difficult to compost, so I used to throw them away. I hated to see meat and bones in the garbage can, landfill-bound.

Guest post by Natalie Ross

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A Garden is Born: Part 1

Posted by Joe in Earth & Planet, Family & Community 9 years, 10 months ago

We are so lucky! We keep talking about this amazing community that we get to interact with every day, so naturally we're gonna show off how awesome y'all are.

First up, meet Natalie: Natalie Ross is obsessed with compost and its role as a nutrient-recycling powerhouse. She lives in Durham, NC, and she studies natural resource management at NC State University. She aims to help people understand and appreciate that they are beautiful part of nature's cycles. Her dreams are to play a role in ending the unnatural and unnecessary chemical horrors that our earth's soils are exposed to and to help in eliminating the needless disposal of organic matter in landfills.

And this is her story.

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