Food waste — kitchen scraps, restaurant leftovers, and expired food that gets tossed out at grocery stores — decays quickly. That process generates more methane than any other material that ends up in ...

Composting is a popular way to keep food waste out of landfills and create a natural fertilizer for houseplants and gardens. Worm composting takes advantage of earthworms’ natural ability to break ...

Finished blender compost should be easy to pour and have a soup-like consistency. If the slurry is too thick, add more water, ...

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 ...

Q: I live in an apartment and would like to compost using worms. Can you tell me more about how to get started? A: Composting using worms is called vermicomposting. This type of composting uses worms ...

Impressed by compost's contribution to the soil, gardeners conferred on it the nickname "black gold." Even more beneficial worm castings could take the title "black diamonds." Just ask Larry Steele, ...

Red wigglers from Will's Worms, a home-based business owned by siblings Will and Alyssa Hatanaka, ages 7 and 8. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Everyone will think your worm collection is gross until they need some soil for their ...

Rhonda Sherman, an extension specialist at N.C. State University, holds a handful of worms from a worm bin in her two-acre Compost Learning Lab at the Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory on Thursday, ...

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 ...