Compost - From Trash to Soil

Never heard of compost before? We have a handy guide for beginners.
Learn what can go in your mix as you turn garden and food waste into soil.
Find classy small containers for kitchen scraps, and larger bins for outside.

Compost

Complete the cycle with compost!

If this is your first time hearing of ‘compost,’ you’re going to want to check out our beginners’ guide. Unsure what can and cannot go in your bins? We have a list of what to avoid putting in compost. Get equipped with outdoor compost bins for yard and garden waste. For food scraps, you’re going to want smaller containers that are perfect for the kitchen.

No Dig Gardening – aka Sheet Mulching

by Zachary Green, Boston, MA on November 21, 2010

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Want to grow the tastiest vegetables with the least work? Here’s a secret. Soil quality is dramatically improved when soil is left undisturbed by the traditional gardening methods of tilling, plowing, digging, etc. Allowing top layers of soil, straw, and mulch to decompose on top of one another creates communities of worms and micro-organisms that enrich your plants and help your food grow. This is the idea behind no-till farming.

Want to get your no-dig garden started? Follow these easy instructions.

Note: This is a great opportunity to apply your compost!

Compost • Farmers Markets • Organic Gardening

Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

by Zachary Green, Boston, MA on November 9, 2010

Golden and Red Beets, Apple, Cara Cara and Blue Cheese Salad. If your mouth is watering, then Eat More Plants is the right site for you. Welcome to our first post! Come along as we seek the best information on healthier eating and living. We follow in the steps of many great news aggregate and social action ecology sites such as TreeHugger. The photo above comes from a favorite photography site of mine, FoodPornDaily, that takes a particular love for what’s on our plates.

Here at Eat More Plants, we follow in the calling of Michael Pollan to eat food, not too much, mostly plants. In his treatise In Defense of Food, Pollan says, “That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning…” Well, we agree. Yet, maybe instead of seven short words, the answer could be put in just three: eat more plants.

Compost • Farmers Markets • Find Restaurants • Organic Gardening • Vegetarian Recipes