Throwing Away Valuable Resources

In many parts of the country, leaf clean-up is an annual chore. They fall from the trees, blanket our lawns, and we often bag them up and toss them out (or burn them). There’s a lesson in this…

In my first few years as a gardener, I spent quite a bit of time trying to understand how to grow the best vegetables. One thing I’ve always loved about gardening is composting–that is, taking our supposed waste and turning it into rich nutrient-dense fertilizer for the next year’s crops. I remember in those early years watching a lecture on composting, and the speaker was talking about how,…