Weekend Gardening: Starting a Worm Farm

Andrea Meyers - Garden worms

We started talking about worms about a month ago, thinking about adding them to our compost to help it along. Michael did the research and we talked it up with the boys, describing how they are beneficial in the garden. The boys started showing an interest, picking up every worm they found on the driveway [...]

Weekend Gardening: A Cheap and Easy Way to Compost

Andrea Meyers - Compost bin

If you peruse garden sites and catalogs, you’ll find an abundance of products to help you compost, and frankly the prices can be pretty ridiculous. In our opinion, $200 or more for a compost bin plus another $40 for a pretty crock to store your kitchen scraps until you have time to take them out [...]