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Are Your Plants Suffering from Climate Change? Scientists Have a Solution

2nd May 2023 Gardeners and farmers alike are suffering from the effects of climate change. As heat waves sweep across the world, water levels are dropping – and tomato yields are particularly affected. However, a new study may have the answer – at least for tomatoes. Morrocan researchers compared the use of conventional chemical fertilizers …

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How to Make An Easy Garbage Bin Composter – Total Cost $0.00!

Compost Bins, Experiments

Composting doesn’t have to be expensive. This DIY compost bin is easy and quick to make and has superb aeration. If you can find the materials, you can even make it for free!

Worms of Steel: How Fast-Evolving Worms Can Remove Metal From Compost

Compost Science

Do you know which of Darwin’s books sold best when first published? Heads up, it wasn’t the Theory of Evolution – it was actually his book on worms. Darwin was both fascinated and impressed by the creatures, stating: “It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part …

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Cartoon of a robot sinking into a compost heap.

This Young Engineer Just Made Robot Parts Compostable…

Compost News, Compost Science

25th April, 2023 With the advent of AI and development in robotics, a future is fast approaching when much of your work (and maybe your composting too!) could be done by robots. But what will happen when those robots come to their end of life? Will it lead to a new endless stream of waste …

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Ejwox Compost Aerator Review: Does It Truly Make Composting Effortless?

Compost Tools

If you’re like me, you’re on the lookout for ways to get good compost without having to use huge amounts of effort. And the thing that is the hardest is turning the compost. Fortunately, there are many ways to aerate the compost which don’t involve turning, and one of them involves a nifty tool called …

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How to Use a Compost Bin (The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need)

Basics, Compost Bins

I’m a massive fan of compost bins. They’re a simple way to turn waste into a rich compost that will benefit your garden for years to come. They also come in all shapes and sizes – and in my garden I’ve got everything from a homemade trash bin composter for generating heat to a three-bin …

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Use Manure, But Make Sure You Compost It First, Say Scientists. Here’s Why…

Compost News

20th April 2023 Boy, do we produce a lot of manure. In the EU alone we produce 1400 million tonnes of manure (and that’s just the animals!) This causes problems – think methane being released into the atmosphere, for example. But it also has the potential for some serious benefits for our soil and ecosystems …

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Looking for the Laziest Ways To Compost? Here’s 7 (Can You Be Bothered to Read Them All?)

Basics, How to Make Compost

So often on Compost Magazine we’ve focused on the fastest and best ways to make compost. Sure, there are hacks and tricks and tips to reduce the effort, but they all involve some effort. And not everyone wants to put effort into composting. So in this article, I wanted to cover some of the easiest, …

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Zoo Animals’ Poop Turned into High-Quality Compost – Available for Sale Now!

Compost News

17th April 2023 In an exciting new initiative, Tend, a sustainable product brand, has partnered with the Buffalo Zoo to produce compost made entirely from the manure and bedding of 14 different species of hooved herbivores, including rhinos, giraffes, and zebras. The combination of high-nitrogen exotic animal poop and carbon-rich aged stall bedding, straw, and …

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Reencle Food Waste Composter: Too Good to Be True?

Compost Bins

I’ve long been skeptical of kitchen composters. They are often criticized for producing dehydrated food, which can have nutritional value for soil or compost heap but is not true compost. Still, when Reencle reached out and asked me to review their new kitchen composter, I said yes. I had just read a Wired review of …

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