One of the challenges that new residents (and seasoned ones) trying to garden in Florida come across is how to grow things in our dry sandy soils. There is more to it than applying lots of water and fertilizer. It soon becomes apparent that the water just runs through the sand and the soil is […]
Last-minute cage bill harms chickens Regarding “Dispute over chicken cages brings debate back to lawmakers” (News, June 14), some lawmakers, at the behest of one company, have rushed through a last-minute bill to postpone one of Rhode Island’s most important laws addressing animal cruelty. The law, passed overwhelmingly in 2018, simply required egg companies to […]
“Oh man, you’ve just been eaten by catfish,” California Department of Fish and Wildlife interpreter Molly Shea told 6-year-old Sebastian Alvarez after he spun the salmon wheel of survival for a tenth time on Sunday afternoon. Each spin, and the number it landed on, represented another possibility in a salmon’s “tough life,” explained Shea. Salmon […]
Over the next few years, you’re going to hear a lot about composting. This will be even more the case with food composting. Before we get into why this topic is so important, we should probably tackle the “what.” Composting is the processing of allowing organic waste to break down into a usable material, such […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has selected the Virginia Zoo to receive funds to launch a state-of-the-art composting project benefiting the zoo and Norfolk community. The USDA’s Composting and Food Waste Reduction Program is funded by the American Rescue Plan Act and a collaboration between the USDA’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production and […]
PROVIDENCE − Will 2024 be the year that Rhode Island joins seven other states in allowing natural organic reduction, also known as human composting, as an alternative to cremation and burial? For the second year in a row, Rep. Michelle McGaw, D-Portsmouth, introduced legislation (H 7212) to allow the practice that turns human remains, over […]
Steven Roig was excited to land a job trucking and processing compost in May of last year. After graduating from a jobs training program called Green City Force, he had spent much of his adult life making New York City greener through his work on green roofs, urban agriculture and landscaping. He especially loved working […]
Jan. 30—PRESTON — David Aldridge brought something to show the Planning and Zoning Commission last Thursday ― a bag of dirt. The bag contained compost created from a pilot food waste composting operation at the Stonington transfer station. Aldridge, the executive director of the Southeastern Connecticut Regional Resources Recovery Authority, brought the material to show […]