This morning, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the nation’s first mandatory composting law. The law requires residents and businesses in San Francisco to dump compostable food scraps into bins similar to their recycling bins, which are then emptied into compost collection trucks.
The new law is part of San Francisco’s efforts to divert 75% of resources from landfills by 2010 and become “zero waste” by 2020. They are on track to …
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As DC’s outside temperatures increase and we see more sunny days, it’s going to be harder and harder to keep the soil in your garden, and in your planters, moist.
It’s vital that the soil stays damp because the bacteria and microbial communities living in the dirt are helping your plants grow. If the soil becomes too dry, these communities die off and the soil must be replaced.
Of course, we all know …
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