Compost

What is Compost and Composting? Compost The wonderful smell of a forest floor is the smell of humus, or completely rotted plants and animals. Decomposed organic matter is compost. The original organic matter is no longer visible and you have rich, black, sweet-smelling, crumbly, soil-like substance.  In a deciduous forest, for example, leaves drop to the…

Vermicompost – Your Guide to Vermicomposting / Worm Composting If you’re thinking of getting into worm composting, you’ve probably got a pile of questions, maybe even a little trepidation. Worm composting may seem like a strange concept, but it’s really just another form of composting. The worms are actually doing the work of breaking down…