A compost pile is an eco-friendly family project that anyone can do! Get the kids involved and teach them how a little change can make a huge difference. An added bonus: They will actually see how the ...

My toddler and her friend looped across the yard in the half run, half skip that only kids can seem to do. Watching them squealing in delight, hands gripped tightly to their watermelon rinds, shouting ...

Composting with worms depends on the digestive system of the wrigglers to break down food scraps. These are not the kind of worms from your yard or night crawlers bought for fish bait. The best ...

One of the most rewarding and long-lasting gardening activities you can teach your children is the importance of composting. Keeping toxic chemicals, fertilizers and poisons out of our yards and ...

The kids seem more excited to be more hands-on because we have more tools than we did last year,’ says program leader Kira Higgins ...

Could New York City have hit on the perfect way to get more people to compost? Nagging kids. It turns out a major push is afoot in New York to get kids composting at school—or, at least, to toss their ...

In a bid to make the city more sustainable, organizations are teaching NYC's youngest civilians how to compost. WFUV's Maya Sargent spoke to two of the organizations making their way into schools ...

Here's a fun project to help kids learn about the science of composting in this week's YARD AND GARDEN column from the University of Illinois Extension.