Some sustainable living changes — like swapping out plastic bags for reusable food storage — are relatively easy. Others — like diverting food waste from landfills — can feel pretty overwhelming.

The Vitamix FoodCycler is an electronic countertop appliance that takes 3 to 8 hours (mine took about 5) to quietly dry, grind, and cool food scraps back down to room temperature before you can throw ...

Vitamix’s food prep appliances — juicers, smoothie makers, blenders — are pretty well known, but the brand also has you covered for the other end of the meal-making process. For the fruit peels, ...

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Composting is something I’ve always wanted to do. But, given that I live in an apartment without access to a yard and I refuse to live with a bin of worms in my living room, I always pictured it as ...

With all the daily struggles we face, worrying about the soil might not seem to be a priority. However, at present, cropland soil is eroding roughly ten times faster than it can be replenished. This ...

Electric composters are a recent innovation with a promising future. Now you can compost at home in small spaces with no ...

In vermicomposters like the Bionicraft (pictured), worms turn your fruit and vegetable scraps into high-quality fertilizer, but they generally aren’t big fans of meats and oily leftovers. Composting ...