Categories: Compost for Organic Soil
The problem with producing compost for organic soil is that households have no way of knowing how to do it or even what materials can be turned into compost. Most households just breeze through the day—working almost all day and surviving just enough to drive home and attend to their personal needs—cooking, eating, taking care […]
Categories: Waste Management
The solid waste management of municipal waste has initially four components: recycling, composting, disposal, and waste-to-energy via incineration. However, further studies revealed that there is no single approach that can be truly effective in the proper disposal of waste. That is why the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States federal government came up with […]
Categories: Compost for Organic Soil
What many people are unaware of is that they can actually turn their common household waste into a compost for organic soil. Many environmentalists do the simple process of composting at home. If you want to become more environmentally aware, you need to learn how to do your own compost for your garden soil. Remember […]
Categories: Composting for Biosolids
The use of composting for biosolids has been a controversial issue for years. experts advocate that it is safe to use for agriculture and even home gardening while others disagree and say that biosolids contain harmful toxins that should never be used to grow edibles. By definition, biosolids is an organic material made out of […]
Categories: Organic Farming
The way to understand the basic policies and the ethical considerations for organic production is to determine its values. There are three basic values under which organic farming falls under—sufficient, healthy, and sustainable. To better focus on the importance of organic food production for societies, we need to take a look further into whether it […]
Categories: Organic Farming
The value placed on organic farming and agriculture largely depends on how society sees it as a whole. For many, organic products are good because they either have high nutritional values or they do not use chemical products such as pesticides and insecticides. While both of these notions are true, there is so much more […]
Categories: Organic Farming
Last month, Britain’s Prince Charles spoke at the 70t anniversary of the Soil Association in London and talked about how the future of humanity now depends on organic farming. Although there are still debates on the importance of organic farming or at least, how important it is in today’s society, we cannot deny the fact […]
Categories: Organic Farming
People are now falling easily to chronic diseases primarily because of the amount of pesticides and fertilizers they unknowingly take through the food that they consume. Of course, no one would ever want to consciously consume these chemicals, but that can’t be helped since organic farming methods allow the use of a number of chemicals, […]
Categories: Organic Farming
You know that buying organic farming products is better for you and still, you are not doing it. Why? You’re not quite sure where to start and how to go about it. There are more than 600 chemicals registered with the United States for agricultural use, so you can only imagine how much of those […]
Categories: Organic Farming
When you pass by a farm or want to buy directly from a farm, how would you know that one is organic and the other is a conventional farm? Are there any tell-tale signs that would glaringly point out to you that a particular farm is organic and not? The basic feature of an organic […]
