Valencia G. puts old shredded junk mail into her homemade compost bin and the results are anything but junk.

Our own Compost for Soil Enrichment

"We recycled a few second hand wooden crate pallets to make a small compost area in the back of our yard. Into this we put our old shredded newspapers, shredded junk snail mail, our lawn clipping, any vegetable skins and old fruits that we may have become too old to consume. . . click here to read more"

Damon G. says the Garden Gourmet composter by Signature Marketing is a discrete and effective product, making it "the perfect, easy solution for suburban composting."

What makes your garden grow? Share your gardening tips at SustainLane.

Whether it's your front lawn, your vegetable garden, or the trees along your street, sustainable gardening is the way to go. Here are the latest headlines.

How Green is Your Yard?
Growing concern for the environment is driving the growth of organic gardening.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn--New York has twenty percent more trees than it did ten years ago-and each one offers a whopping 500% return on investment.

Beepocalypse--Why are the honeybees disappearing?

Have a headline we should cover? Email your links to community@sustainlane.com.

Valerie B. gives her plants a dose of Merrill's All Natural Compost Tea for good health.

Garbage and Poop Tea

"For some reason, I love the idea that garbage and waste and poop, things that are supposedly so gross, can be steeped into a tea of health for your plants. These tea bags don't have a nasty odor, and are pretty potent . . . Click here to read more."

Valerie B. also recommends TerraCycle All Purpose Plant Food, another worm poop product for a healthy garden.

Brag about your "green" thumb by writing a review on SustainLane.

Green Drinks East Bay: SustainLane is sponsoring the July East Bay Green Drinks, a monthly networking event for anyone into green (of legal drinking age of course!). The event has gotten so large, it's moving this month from the Triple Rock Brewery to the Green City Gallery. We'll be raffling off 30 SustainLane t-shirts. Bring your business cards!

Green City Gallery
July 25, 6pm - 9pm
Greendrinks.org

Global ECO Trade and Fashion Show: A trade show connecting green buyers with conventional retailers interested in earth-friendly clothing designs, sustainable textiles, and eco- products.

August 26 - 29
Las Vegas, NV
globalecoshow.com

2007 Net Impact Conference: What will you do next to make our world more sustainable? On November 2 & 3, more than 1,500 graduate business students and professionals will come up with an answer. The 2007 Net Impact Conference will challenge attendees to think deeply about current issues and trends in the business world, while engaging them to create an action- oriented plan for taking change back to their communities.

Thursday, November 1 - 3
Owen Graduate School of Management,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Click here to visit the conference website.