Person adding soil backfill to a pine tree sapling - Anastasiia Krivenok/Getty Images When it's time to prep your yard's soil for planting a tree, grabbing some compost may seem like an obvious step.

From wrapping paper to decorations, the most wonderful time of the year can quickly become the most wasteful. The 25 to 30 million Christmas trees Americans buy every year are no exception. When the ...

Composting is the process of creating that nutrient-rich soil, also known as “humus.” The art of composting has been around as long as ancient farming when it was noticed that plants grew best in ...