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Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Keeping sweet things out of your compost is usually a good way to deter animals, but this expired kitchen condiment could ...

These days, home kitchens are getting a workout, with quarantine cooks cranking out meals (and, admit it, lots and lots of snacks) from daybreak to dusk. The result is a sink filled with carrot ...

The whole point of composting is to break down items, kitchen scraps and yard waste into decayed organic matter that fertilizes plants. That’s relatively easy to do in the summer, when outdoor ...

Here’s an idea: Start a project with the kids that will teach them something important about how the Earth sustains itself. Set up a container for vermicomposting. (Yes, this project involves worms.

Easter dinner is all about the ham. Some say it's because devout Christians wouldn't eat meat for all of Lent, some say it's based on some old pagan god. But no matter what, we're guessing you're ...

I don’t pretend that I, or anyone, invented the idea of cooking with scraps. It’s the way people have eaten since the dawn of humanity—bound by the rhythm of the seasons, pickling, preserving, making ...