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Winter Composting Tips: Indoors and Outdoors!

Don’t let Old Man Winter put the freeze on your composting efforts! He’ll try his best to thwart you by turning your piles to ice, slowing down microbes, shooing [Read more...]
Art of “Waste” — The New York Compost Box Project

As we increasingly give a scrap about how much we waste and how we can reclaim it, trash has become a serious source of inspiration for artists and innovators. [Read more...]
Video: Compost – To Turn or Not To Turn?

It’s the burning question that keeps compost lovers with heaping piles up at night: “Do I turn that sucker or what??” Turning a compost pile is [Read more...]
Goats, Chickens and Compost: Volunteering with Earth Matter on Governors Island

I came for the chickens, bunnies, and baby goats. I stayed for the thirty-two thousand pounds of food scraps. The Earth Matter Compost Learning Center on Governors [Read more...]
Eat Your Enemies: Japanese Knotweed Fruit Leather Recipe

Some people say, “Love thy enemies.” I say, “Eat them!” …At least when it comes to certain edible invasive plant species such as Japanese [Read more...]
How To Make DIY Bokashi Flakes

For the longest time, I thought worms were the love of my compost life. Cute, easy to care for, discreet when tucked in a cabinet or under the sink… But recently, [Read more...]
Compostalypse Now! Composting with Coppola at Blancaneaux Lodge, Belize

We’ve all been transfixed by Francis Ford Coppola’s awesome oeuvre of films, but did you know his genius also extends to eco-friendly jungle hideaways? Blancaneaux [Read more...]
The Book on Composting: Compost City!

I’m a-wiggle like a pound of earthworms in their very first worm bin. Why? I wrote a book about composting! I am so excited to share the news of “Compost City: [Read more...]
6 Easy Ways to Eat Greener

If you’re like me, you consume delicious morsels of food the way some people (also me) binge on baby animal videos — joyfully and without abandon. However, if [Read more...]
Save New York City Oysters

Oyster happy hour in New York City is the happiest hour of them all, but did you know that oysters are oysome beyond their tastetacular, aphrodesiacal, delight-by-the-bite [Read more...]

6 Easy Ways to Eat Greener

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If you’re like me, you consume delicious morsels of food the way some people (also me) binge on baby animal videos — joyfully and without abandon. However, if [Read more...]
Goats, Chickens and Compost: Volunteering with Earth Matter on Governors Island

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Winter Composting Tips: Indoors and Outdoors!

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Food Film “GMO OMG”: U Haz Test Toob Nom Noms!

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*This post was originally published in 2012 on my previous blog. As much as I love plunging face-first into bowls of decadent delights, I have learned that with great [Read more...]
Dishing Dirt on “Symphony of the Soil” with Deborah Koons Garcia

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Art of “Waste” — The New York Compost Box Project

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