Home composting is essential for serious gardeners. Affectionately known as "black gold", compost is the nutritious, loamy ...

I first learned about ‘in situ’ worm communities several years ago in fruit orchards. Farmers were using a combination of in-orchard and in-ground vermiculture (cultivating/farming of worms) and ...

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 ...

When Grant Estrade opened Laughing Buddha Nursery on Clearview Parkway in Metairie 13 years ago, he had a simple goal: to serve gardeners who wanted to grow vegetables and herbs organically. Over time ...

One of the many gardening-related activities we’ve enjoyed for several years is vermicomposting. Vermicomposting is simply composting with worms. It can be done inside any time of the year, which ...

Vv Acevedo reaches into one of the dirt piles that line the Arizona Worm Farm and pulls out a handful of dirt. It’s full of squirming worms buried just beneath the surface. Located near South Mountain ...

Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler worms — could be the new livestock for Southern California gardeners ... if only they were easier to find. The demand for composting worms skyrocketed ...

One of Lanette Sobel’s most trusted business partners is a worm. Actually, she works with lots of worms. They’re essential to her specialized six-acre farm in Homestead. While many of her agricultural ...

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, ...