If you use an outdoor compost tumbler, or otherwise do your composting outdoors, then you may wonder if you should bother with composting over the winter. The answer is a definitive “Yes!” Composting speeds up the natural decomposition process, allowing organic matter to break down quickly, and it happens during winter too, just at a […]

If you’re an urban apartment dweller who tends to kill house plants and doesn’t participate in a community garden, should you compost? Perhaps you should. Composting using simple plastic compost bins or a small compost tumbler doesn’t just provide great, organic material that enriches soil and make gardens happy, it keeps lots of food scraps […]

If you use compost bins or are otherwise interested in composting, you may have wondered exactly what goes on that turns potato peelings and grass clippings into that rich, dark mulch that your garden loves so much. Several ingredients are required for the magic that goes on in your average compost tumbler. Composting requires nitrogen, […]

Though a lot of people get into the simple compost method of putting kitchen scraps and yard clippings into a composter and reap the rewards a few months later to place on their gardens, there are actually many interesting variations on composting. Many of them can be done with the kind of compost bins for […]

If you have a college student in the family, you may have heard of the concept of “dining sustainability.” This concept has prompted campus dining halls all over the world to increase use of locally grown foods from sustainable organic agriculture practices. Some dining halls even use compostable plates, cups, and utensils that are made […]

Like it or not, your website will be judged on how it looks. The best content in the world cannot make up for an amateurish, cluttered, or garish site design. The good news is, if you’re not skilled in website design, or even if you don’t have the first clue about how to design a […]

Maybe you think that composting isn’t practical or useful because you live in an apartment, but think again. There are plenty of good reasons to try composting, even if you don’t have a yard or garden at all. Here are some considerations for urban composting. First, you want to choose from the many small compost […]

Sure, we all officially cringe at things being judged solely on appearances, but with your website, the appearance is a huge factor in getting visitors to stick around long enough to explore your content. That’s why using a well thought-out theme on your site is so important. You don’t have to know about HTML, or […]

We like to think that we don’t judge things based on appearances, but when is the last time a website’s content was compelling enough to overcome a terrible design – cluttered, garish, disorganized, or plain ugly? If you want people to visit your website and better yet, stick around and bookmark it, it needs to […]

We all know that one of the keys to having a successful, popular website is having a great design. You’ve probably visited websites that were poorly designed, with ugly graphics, hard-to-read colors and fonts, distracting flash animations and the like. That just won’t do when you have an automotive website. If you want your visitors […]