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Anyone can compost in their backyard. Composting has benefits even if it never turns into "black gold." It really isn't hard. I first tried to compost in 2007, when I moved into an apartment with a ...

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A gardener's hard-earned composting lesson is striking a chord online after "compostable" restaurant paper turned into a pile ...