This Fancy Electric Composter Is 30% Off Right Now
Image: Reencle While you could make a DIY compost bin, grab cheap composter, and try the laziest ways to compost, this Reencle Prime Food Waste Composter is nice and easy,…
The Best Way to Compost if You Don’t Want to Compost
Composting has an ick factor. Between gardening and cooking, I produce a lot of waste that goes right into the “green bin” for city composting and I’m always super happy…
The Five Laziest Ways to Compost
Composting is a great way to get free fertilizer for your garden. If you’re brand new to composting, the idea is simple: You use clippings, leaves, and food scraps that…
You Should Try No-Dig Gardening
In school, most people learned that gardening involved planting a seed in soil, making sure it had the right amount of water and sunlight, and watching it grow. Of course,…
These Simple Food Choices Can Drastically Reduce Your Environmental Impact
A few years ago, during a long drive from San Diego to Davis, I decided to go vegan cold turkey. I was driving toward my alma mater, where I was…
The Most Commonly Wasted Foods (and How to Stop Wasting Them)
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) Food waste is a serious issue. According to Feeding America, around 119 billion pounds of food is wasted in the US every year, worth more than $408…
Why You Should Never Use Klarna to Buy Groceries
If you’ve been grocery shopping any time in the last few years, you know that food prices are too damn high. Like everything else, food prices experience inflation, normally about…
Why ‘Foodscaping’ Is Better Than Regular Landscaping
For most people, landscaping is a purely decorative act. We design the exteriors of our homes for visual impact more than anything, resulting in immaculate lawns and colorful edgings that…
The Simple Difference Between a Farm and a Garden
Photo: Jacob Lund (Shutterstock) Gardening has always been a part of American home life, with tens of millions of homes across the country sporting one. That got an extra boost…
Edible Plates and Cutlery Are Good, Actually
Photo: Creatus (Shutterstock) Eating comes naturally to most of us humans, and our collective evolution as a global civilization has been shaped by what we can eat and how easily…