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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vermiculture compost bin used to teach schoolkids about composting with red wriggler worms. (Photo by Bella Quiroa) We see ...

SINCE LAST WEEK we gave out chores you need to do this month, and since many of those chores produce green, leafy debris, and since you eat daily, let me give you a chore — become a “worm farmer!” ...

This month the Biscayne Times, owned and operated by former New Times editor Jim Mullin, features an article by Jeff Shimonski, a certified arborist and director of horticulture at Jungle Island, on ...

Wiggly worms are gobbling garbage at Saginaw Valley State University. The creatures, called red wigglers, are being used to digest hundreds of pounds of food waste a week from campus dining centers ...

Last week, David White closed the books on a grant-funded composting initiative, ending a two-year program based in the Ojai Valley which served schools and community gardens in several local cities.

Take a peek at what the eighth graders at Manlius Pebble Hill are working on in class with staff photographer John Berry. Half of a baked potato doused in sour cream, orange rinds, a banana peel, an ...

The bag arrives in the mail, and I quickly open it to make sure they are still alive. They are! They are a squirming, writhing ball of Red Wriggler worms. Their Latin name is Eisenia fetida, and among ...