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 ...

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

Vermicomposting — a.k.a. worm composting — is a compact way to turn your food scraps into worm castings (worm poop), a moist, crumbly soil amendment known as garden gold because it provides important ...

In an arrangement between Savor, the Alamodome's culinary arm, and the San Antonio Composting Project, about half a dozen volunteers loaded 25 buckets of food waste collected from the arena’s kitchens ...

A reader wants to recycle kitchen waste into the compost. She has a garbage disposal in her sink but prefers to use the food scraps rather than waste them. Can she rescue the food scraps and mix them ...

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, ...

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 ...

Josh revisits his earliest gardening experiments with growing in containers. Containers have the advantage of being portable if you’re renting, but also allowing you to move plants in and out of ...

Years ago, before the advent of quiet kitchen composters that look more like Xboxes than trash heaps, I got a worm bin. A worm bin is essentially a compost bucket ...