Gifts of Good Dirt

By Liz Brazile, YES! magazine

The majority of people interested in his soil generally have an affinity for growing their own food. He hopes to help others who might not — especially those who are food insecure.

Your Trash is Your Luxury

By Carol Ramos, Future Perfect

Based on the concept “From Plate to Plate,” the Guandu Institute offers environmental solutions for large restaurants and seeks to inspire restoring the planet’s health. How? By composting organic trash, food preparation excess and leftovers, which go to landfills. Composting doesn’t only help to diminish the volume in landfills but it also produces fertilizer, such a fundamental resource for food production.

Valuing What Really Matters: A Look at Soil Currency

By Randall Coleman, Solutions Journal

Soil is a vital resource that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates contributes about USD $16.5 trillion in ecosystem services annually.

Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program

By Rebecca Nathanson, YES! magazine

The combination of BK Rot’s many aspects—creating green jobs for young people, raising local awareness about composting, and opening up public space—makes it a useful example of creatively addressing large-scale problems, even on a small scale.

How to Build a Compost Tea Brewer and Brew Tea

By Phil Williams, Peak Prosperity

Compost tea is a great way to magnify your compost by breeding the beneficial microorganisms and spraying them on your plants. Plants sprayed with high quality compost tea will be healthier, less affected by pests, and produce better fruits and vegetables.

Chicken Fortress, Hay Igloo

By Eric Krasnauskas, Science Pope

What’s a Hay Igloo? Basically it’s a large compost pile surrounded by hay bales and covered with a tarp.

The Ground Rules

By Shawndra Miller, Shawndra Miller blog

Meet “renegade researcher” Nancy Klehm. She’s on a mission to transform our thinking about waste—and to transform our waste into healthy soil.

The Roots of your Health: the Science of Soil

By Lynda Brown, Sustainable Food Trust

Earlier this year, US soil microbiologist Elaine Ingham, of Soil Foodweb Inc. fame, caused several gasps at the Oxford Real Farming Conference with her controversial lecture, ‘The Roots of your Profits’.

Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land

By Sven Eberlein, A World of Words

It seems pretty obvious that recycling, reusing, and repurposing materials we no longer need makes a lot more sense than burning or burying them, not just from an environmental, but an economic perspective.

Composting Coop Taps into the Unbroken Spirit of Rust Belt Cities

By Daniel Brown, Shareable

Today Cleveland boasts over 200 community gardens. I am proud to say I get to work with a handful of them in a unique way.