It may be colder outside, but your compost needs to stay warm to be ready for 2026. Here's a few ways to help it do so.

Pine straw is an organic mulch made from fallen pine needles, explains Mary Jane Duford, founder of the beginner gardening blog Home for the Harvest. Like any garden mulch, pine needles create a ...

Straw mulch is great for gardens. It locks in moisture, smothers weeds, and feeds plants. But it might also cause one of the ...

The Straw House, a one-of-a-kind community ecology and arts center in the making in Laguna Canyon, faces demolition due to funding and ownership woes. The nonprofit is asking the Laguna ...

Days grow shorter, and nights grow cooler. October is a time of change. The evening chill seems to bring out the desire for autumn curb appeal. It they are not already there, you will likely see hay ...

Straw bale gardens work well for veggies, herbs, and flowers but not perennials or larger plants. Bales need to be conditions for at least 12 days with water and fertilizer before planting. Plant ...

RHINELANDER, Wis. (WJFW) — Hanson’s Garden Village is rolling out a weekend of fall activities in Rhinelander, complete with hayrides, a straw maze and even a few Highland cattle that ate their way ...

Two castoffs of a typical Minnesota farm, straw and the stalks of hemp plants, are becoming valuable as building materials. The state is on track to become the first to authorize straw and hemp in ...

Sharon Van Hassel still remembers the laughter, the meals and the dirt flying through the air roughly 25 years ago as she, her late husband and neighbors built a home, straw bale by straw bale. That’s ...

Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a ...