Natural wine corks are compostable after removing any metal foil and other materials. To speed up the decomposition process, the corks should be chopped up. Corks are brown composting material; add ...

Look all around, out your front door, back yard, back roads and highways, the trees are alive. Next time you open a bottle of wine, it will most likely have a cork stopper. Corks are made from trees!

LISBON — If you cracked open some champagne to see in the New Year, chances are the cork blown out by the bubbly was made in Portugal. But in the country that produces over half the world’s cork, an ...

Next time you open a bottle of wine, remember to hold onto the cork—it can be a fun, easy DIY project for your garden. These small objects can be upcycled into seed markers, broken down into compost ...

IN A TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED cellar with little damp, a good cork will be able to protect wine for several decades. The problem arises on those rare occasions when it doesn't. Anyone who has built up a ...

In order to amass the 800 (!) wine corks that it took for a DIY tile installer in Saint Louis to tile her kitchen back splash with wine corks, she needed to find a lot of wine corks. If you want to do ...

Many birds continue to seek out birdbaths throughout the winter. You can raise a glass to your flying visitors, then save the ...

Use these simple tips to turn wine corks into compost successfully. Natural wine corks are compostable after removing any metal foil and other materials. To speed up the decomposition process, the ...