Urban farming is on the rise, and within this growing movement, Black farmers are playing a crucial role in revitalizing communities, improving food access, and promoting sustainability. One essential ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Bucket by bucket, Andrew Meland is helping make a difference in Chicago through composting. "If you asked me three years ago if I would be driving around in a car with 500,000 miles ...

As an urban mom, the true missing link in all of the "green" things my family does is compost. Without a yard to have a pile in, options are fairly limited unless you live in a city that takes scraps, ...

At death in the United States we are faced with two options: burial or cremation. While some outliers select donating their remains to science or green funerals, as of 2015, according to statistics ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Turning food scraps into compost helps reduce waste and put precious nutrients back into our soil. That's why composting is great for environment and for plants and vegetables.

DETROIT (WXYZ) — At the corner of Georgia and Vinton Streets in Detroit, you can find a lot of love growing. The intersection is home to the Georgia St. Community ...

From dust you were made, and to dust you will return — hopefully to create some high-quality soil. Seattle-based Urban Death Project founder Katrina Spade is leading a growing effort in support of a ...

In this video brought to you by the Local Motives YouTube channel, we explore how a small community urban farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn produces over 150 tons of compost every year with just hand tools.

If Katrina Spade gets her way, using decomposed corpses as fertilizer will be as common a practice as traditional burial and cremation. Spade is the founder of the Urban Death Project, an organization ...