Organic gardeners recommend using worm castings as a fantastic, non-toxic fertilizer that can boost soil health and help you ...

Volunteer Columbia hosted a composting workshop focused on the vermicomposting method, which utilizes the red wiggler worm species. The workshop was held by volunteers Jody Cook and Lindsey Smith.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Turning food scraps into compost helps reduce waste and put precious nutrients back into our soil. That's why composting is great for environment and for plants and vegetables.

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 ...

Whitman College Campus Climate Challenge program. Barbara Newby has worms. About 200,000 red wigglers among four large bins are part of Newby’s Walla Walla Worm Works, a southeast Washington business ...

Please don’t treat your soil like dirt. The drought underscores the importance of folding compost into your garden soil to hold onto precious water. Or use compost as mulch. Organic material can help ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Do worms like pizza? To students in Dorothy Stengel’s class, this is not an esoteric question. It is a matter of life and death. “They can have pizza but only the crust,” Eileen Leosa ...

Gardening classes: The Mill Valley Public Library offers free seasonal gardening classes most Saturdays and occasionally on Sundays. Call 415-389-4292 or go to millvalleylibrary.org. Garden club: ...

I've been reading a lot about worms and worm composting, and see there are many claims about the benefits of using vermicompost in gardens and houseplants. Is it true that vermicompost acts as a ...

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 ...

In the list of professions that children dream of, becoming a worm farmer usually isn’t one of them. It wasn’t either for Connor Freimuth of Chilton, yet that’s exactly where he landed. Freimuth, ...

What: Science Behind: Worm Composting. When: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Where: Walking Mountains Science Center, Avon. Cost: $20. More information: RSVP to Walking Mountains at 970-827-9725. AVON — ...