A 17-year-old York Suburban student wants to build community, reduce waste in landfills, and enrich the soil through a new ...
In this video, I show you how to compost shredded paper to make rich, fertile, plant food and soil improver. Why waste paper or place it in the recycle bin when you can turn it into beautiful compost ...
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