This basic overview provides composting tips, and some creative solutions for common issues. Composting benefits you by producing healthy, enriched

This basic overview provides composting tips, and some creative solutions for common issues.

Composting benefits you by producing healthy, enriched soil that can be used in gardens to encourage strong roots and optimal growth for vegetables, herbs, and flowers. By composting organic materials at your home, or at a local compost site, it also benefits the earth by:

• reducing waste and trash, which reduces methane in our environment
• conserving water — healthy soil retains water and decreases run-off
• producing micro-organisms that help protect plants against pests and disease