The San Joaquin River trust overseeing Sumner Peck ranch has been using human remains to fertilize the ground at the farm.

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

Fresno County officials 'shocked' by human remains compost on public land, issuing a cease-and-desist order.

The house plants in Dianne Thompson-Stanciel’s Tinton Falls home are thriving with the help of a new compost. The leaves on her monstera deliciosa are a bright evergreen, their vines climbing taller ...