are happy to give anyone the pallets – just to get rid of them. When you get your pallets, just nail the sides together and you will have your very own environmentally friendly compost bin. Since I have a lot of kitchen...

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Cambridge, MA is running a trial of providing household containers for food scraps that residents can bring to a recycling site to be composted. Some restaurant and health food stores are participating in the program for...

Now that I have a real kitchen, I want to try making my own chicken stock. I’ve been saving chicken parts, onion scraps, etc. in the freezer, but was wondering if I could also use fennel scraps (the leaves and the stalks on...

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. Nearly all fruit and vegetable scraps go in, but I put really big stuff like corn husks and most of the apple cores when I make applesauce in the city composting can. A small bucket on the kitchen counter holds coffee grounds,...