ANN ARBOR: City hosting composting workshops Feb. 11

The City of Ann Arbor is hosting two vermicomposting workshops Feb. 11 at the Ann Arbor's Materials Recovery Facility, 4150 Platt Road.

The Root of it All: The benefits of worm compost

I've been reading a lot about worms and worm composting, and see there are many claims about the benefits of using vermicompost in gardens and houseplants. Is it true that vermicompost acts as a natural pesticide? Are there other ways that it helps the soil and plants? - Dave, Racine.

Town mulls organic fertilizer production

KANANGA, Leyte - The municipal agriculture office of this town is proposing for a P300,000 allocation for organic fertilizer production to boost crop production.

Master Gardener: What's growing on in our soil

Tiny microbes thrive beneath the earth.

Sen. Noland plans Town Hall meetings in Kane, Cook counties

Senator Michael Noland (D-Elgin) will hold Town Hall Meetings on Thursday in Elgin and Wednesday, Jan. 18 in Streamwood to update area residents on new and continuing issues in the Illinois Senate’s upcoming spring session, scheduled to begin Jan. 31, 2012. The Kane County session will be from 7 to 9 p.m. at Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N Grove Ave, Elgin, Community Rooms A, B & C. The Cook ...