Humans tend to waste a lot of food. It's a problem that has led innovators to come up with all kinds of ideas — for how we could change grocery shopping to how we could change cooking to how we could ...

Sonoma County is about to roll out the red carpet for some unlikely celebrities: worms. With two composting workshops on the calendar this fall, locals have a chance to see firsthand how these slim, ...

Here's a promising get-rich-quick scheme for gardeners: It's called vermiculture, or worm composting, and along with super-sizing crop yields, it cuts water bills, conditions soils and repels ...

There is an unwelcome earthworm in our midst. This comes as no surprise to folks with an aversion to slime. But to gardeners and farmers who rightfully tout the contribution of most wrigglers to soil ...

Vegetable garden composting is a fantastic way of recycling waste. For your kitchen waste (cooked and uncooked), a wormery is ...

Waste from the textiles industry could with the assistance of earthworms and some animal manure become a rich compost for agriculture, according to a report in the International Journal of Environment ...

Mature compost is the best fertilizer for the garden - and a natural and free one at that. But in order for organic waste to turn into beneficial substrate, the compost heap in your garden should be ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Rhonda Sherman knows worms. This wasn’t intentional — not really. In 1980, when she was in college in her native Michigan, Sherman chose solid waste management. She started out ...