Used coffee grounds from a campus coffee shop are being used as compost to cultivate gourmet mushrooms at a student farm. By composting alone, 50 pounds a week -- or about 30 percent of the coffee ...

Coffee grounds are considered green compost material, which may seem counterintuitive given their color. However, in the world of composting, ‘green’ refers to nitrogen-rich organic matter, ...

Mark in Waldorf writes: “On Nov. 2, you told us, ‘Do not include food scraps, wood ash, grass clippings, junk mail or other nonsense in your compost pile. I’ll explain why next week.’ You ...

Work 2–3 inches of compost into garden beds before planting to boost soil structure, moisture retention, and nutrient ...

Learning how to compost can add nutrients to your soil and help reduce waste around your house. ... coffee grounds, grass clippings and plant trimmings. ... cardboard, sawdust and wood chips.

"If you're dumping a lot of coffee grounds into the compost every day, then you need to balance it out with browns, such as ...

She dumps the coffee grounds into a maturing compost pile, which is full of nitrogen and carbon-rich materials like fruit and vegetable scraps, dried leaves and shredded paper and newspaper.

If you do want to use coffee grounds as a mulch, don’t add more that an half an inch to the ground or mix it in with courser mulch like wood chips. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

Lisa Ogden writes, “Use no more than 20-35 percent by volume of coffee grounds in a compost pile” as higher percentages can have negative effects. ... or wood chips. Use it to exfoliate ...

A pilot program under way at the Laramie landfill aims to produce compost on a large scale, and we’re not talking eggshells and coffee grounds at this operation. By combining biosolids with wood ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) ... “Even if it’s just composting, ‘I’m going to compost my coffee grounds and banana peels,’ and that’s what you’re going to focus on.