Composting sounds tricky to begin with. There are so many stages, and so many variations that it can be easy to become confused and decide to opt for the recognized brands instead. However if you plan carefully, your compost will not only save you money at the garden center it will also save you space [...]

Have you been searching for plans to build a homemade composter? Well we have the perfect solution, today we are writing about how to build a composter using materials from any local hardware store, and the best part is, it costs less than $30! Materials List: For this project you will need the following… 5 [...]

If you read our previous post about the Garden View Super Composter then you might be wondering what the composting performance was like? Well, it wasn’t great, the static bin style of outdoor composter needs lots of work from watering to turning the compostable waste with a pitch fork. It also takes about 2 – [...]

This is the new Composter we bought for Bluemoon Farm. It is called Compost Wizard, a 12 cu. ft. tumbler composter.  It is made from 98% recycled materials and comes fully assembled. We put it out by the garden, in a sunny spot to ensure it stays hot, (between 95 degrees and 160 degrees)! I [...]

Do you own an outdoor composter or have a compost heap in the yard? If you do then you will know that collecting compostable fruit and vegetable waste can be a difficult routine to maintain. You need to collect the scraps of compostable food and take them out to the compost heap after every meal [...]

Fall seemed the appropriate time to talk about worm composting. Worm composting is a way to recycle food waste into a rich, dark, earthy-smelling soil conditioner. This type of composting is somewhat unique in that it can be done indoors, as well as outdoors, this allows for all year composting. If you live in a [...]

Do you throw away old fruit and vegetable scraps, egg shells, tea bags and coffee grounds? Our semi-vegetarian household goes through lots of fruit and vegetables and being from England I drink lots of tea! Our trash bags no longer contain anything that can be recycled, we make sure all our recyclables go into our [...]

Summer is in full swing here in Texas and our grass is growing at an incredible rate. We will soon be mowing every week and I have been looking for ways to make our yard work a little greener. One area that has annoyed me for a long time is that I could not find [...]

Our weekly visit to the grocery store often includes a visit to the cleaning products aisle to check out the latest green products, one aspect which is still woefully lacking is the availability of biodegradable trash bags. We have searched far and wide but nowhere appears to stock them yet. image by Cezary Okupski The [...]