On the Web: More of a visual learner? Check out Tire Business' Facebook page for a photo gallery. AKRON—Since I started at Tire Business, I have had to go to my local tire/automotive aftermarket ...

Courtesy Asparagus grows in these tire planters. Hippies, organic gardeners and New Age environmentalists would like to think they invented recycling, but they didn’t. Cottage gardeners, country folks ...

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A couple of years ago, a headline caught Herb Starr's eye. It was a story about a tire dump that had caught fire and burned for weeks. He looked at the tires piling up at the auto body shop where he ...

RACINE — A woman’s quest to use a painted tire as an outdoor planter could soon result in a change to a city ordinance, allowing the repurposing of waste tires. But adjustments to the zoning code ...

RISON - Les Walz is cooking up a gardening experiment. Its main ingredients are potato plants and old tires. Walz is the cooperative extension agent for Cleveland County. He has been instrumental in ...

RACINE — She may not have gotten her hearing before the City Council, but a local real estate agent hasn’t given up her quest to use a painted truck tire as a planter. Alicia Villa approached the City ...