Growing vegetables or flowers in raised beds gives you the opportunity to create a perfect environment for your plants. You want to ensure the contents of your bed is of a good enough quality for your ...

The best fill materials for raised garden beds are the ones that can decompose on their own, like twigs, leaves, straw, and more. Starting your raised bed with a layer of cardboard or newspaper can ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Raised garden beds are a good way to get started gardening, save your back, and maybe get more veggies. This week's question starts with the soil. Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In ...

Composting is beneficial to gardeners and the environment, but to make the most of it, you need to discover which method best ...

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. - Food scraps and other compostable items are now coming to a drop off spot at the weekly Farmers' Market on Saturdays in Santa Barbara. The idea came from the Compost SB group.

It’s midafternoon on a steamy Saturday, and you’ve hauled several large bundles of branches into Bethlehem to compost. “Where do you think you’re going with that, ma’am,” a stern-faced man with a clip ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - Longview residents continue cleaning up debris left behind by Monday’s storm. Well, that debris has to go somewhere, and much of it is taken to the Longview compost site, ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. There are a few different types of raised garden beds, but I think the type most ...