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 ...

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 ...

Someone preparing a bokashi compost bucket with lots of food scraps. - Guido Mieth/Getty Images By just looking at it, bokashi and worm composting (vermicomposting) might seem like similar ways to ...

Home composting is essential for serious gardeners. Affectionately known as "black gold", compost is the nutritious, loamy material you get from letting organic matter decompose. It enriches the soil ...

Looking for an extra-rich fertilizer to help your garden grow — and a fun excuse to let your kids play with nightcrawlers? Try vermicomposting, or composting with worms. When worms eat leftover ...

Earthworms may soon have their own Facebook fan page if local worm worshippers have their way. “I had forgotten how good food could taste fresh from the garden until I was experimenting with worm ...

Scott talks with NPR's Ketzel Levine about red wiggler worms. These are worms that can be put to work turning kitchen waste into compost. New York City worm expert Naomi Bloom also joins the ...

(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, 's Berkeley Worm Composting Collective. Founded in 1992, this nonprofit group of students is dedicated to enlisting the worm to recycle more than ...

Heather Rinaldi is owner of Texas Worm Ranch, where nearly 100,000 pounds of compost are created each year by the company’s army of red wiggler worms.(Photos by G.J. McCarthy - Staff Photographer) ...

Composting your kitchen scraps using worms not only is fun and easy, says Contra Costa Master Gardener Linda Mizes, your plants are going to love the end result. Worms convert those scraps into ...