The drop-off site is part of an ongoing initiative to reduce the amount of food waste in the landfill, where it takes up valuable space and creates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
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Start your own compost pile with kitchen scraps to create natural fertilizer for your garden.
A good mulching mower pays for itself in several ways. First, you don’t have to pay to have grass clippings bagged and hauled to a composting facility. Second, returning clippings to your lawn is like free fertilizer. Over the course of a full season you’ll return about as much nitrogen as one full-strength feeding.
As landfills are getting full, putting food waste in a separate kitchen receptacle is a no-brainer. Here's what to know about composting at home.
Being able to store and process the compost in a warehouse and in the composter also means the business doesn't need as much land.
The annual fall sale returns to Garver Feed Mill this Saturday, but material shortages are resulting in rain barrels not being available.
“We grow food, pick it, process it, transport it to stores, purchase it, transport it home, store it, cook it and then toss it out? That’s just crazy.”
The city announced Friday that it will close three dropoff sites on July 17 and direct residents to put food scraps into trash bins or backyard compost piles.
You don’t need acreage to grow your own fresh produce. Explore options to start a garden on your roof, balcony or even indoors.
This year's program follows a successful curbside food scrap collection program that ran for seven weeks in August and September last year.
Vermont is now the first state to legally require composting from its citizens. A look at the process of composting and how it’s now the law o…
Vermont is now the first state to legally require composting from its citizens. A look at the process of composting and how it’s now the law o…
There will be strict limits on what the city will accept. Contamination was what led to the first curbside program's demise.
Parents aren’t getting it, and that’s a problem.
Q: Is it legal to install a composting toilet in Madison?
That list of banned materials was much longer than in the city's first curbside composting pilot program, which ran from June 2011 to June 2018.
Madison, Dane County, farmers and others are fighting back against phosphorous and invasive carp. Will their efforts be enough?
The goal was to take Madison's organics program citywide by 2016; today organics go to the landfill as the city searches for a processor.
Composting farm manure could hold a three-fold benefit to Dane County farmers, if a large-scale facility is built.
Wisconsin State Journal intern Lexy Brodt demonstrates how to turn a newspaper into a compost container after the city of Madison told residen…
Madison residents who are in the organic recycling program are being asked to hold off on using the biofilm bags provided by the city.
"...a 6 is still a 6. We can do better."
Misty Morning's owner could face fines for failing to install controls that were supposed to be in place in 2014, state officials said.
Wisconsin Red Worms sells worms for composting to customers around the country.
I'm going to miss having a cart full of rotting banana peels, broccoli stems and dog poop.