Cooking oil is one of the most flexible ingredients in your culinary repertoire, but it can do even more outside of your ...

If you have an outdoor garden, chances are you constantly battle pests that want to eat the fruits, veggies, plants, and flowers that you worked so hard to grow. It's a neverending battle! Seed to ...

Let me first take the opportunity to wish everyone a prosperous new year in the garden. And to start off the year, I’d like to help you with the age-old problem of dealing with bugs. Here in Costa ...

Taking care of pests in the garden has always been a challenge to many gardeners. Many people who love gardening are looking for safe, effective, and low toxic product alternatives to the more toxic ...

Tired of finding pests in your compost? Try these simple, natural spray solutions to keep bugs at bay without hurting beneficial insects or microbes.

When you’re living close to nature, bug bites come with the territory. Having a homemade bug bite balm on hand can bring instant relief—without the questionable ingredients found in store-bought ...

Brian Lovett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

In some minds, the only thing worse than a bug is the poop that comes out of it. However, disgusting as it might seem, bug droppings are testing out very well as an excellent fertilizer for farm and ...

Late fall is the time when we like to bundle up, grab a blanket and get cozy in a nice warm place in preparation for winter. Insects are no different; they too like to seek winter shelter to protect ...