Many gardeners rely on compost to help improve their soils. Taking compost a step further, some gardeners use worms to break down the compost even more. Vermicomposting, or worm composting, uses red ...

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 ...

Some worms are a welcome sight to see in your garden -- but others you'll want to get rid of. Here's how to tell which worms ...

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 ...

BONITA, Calif. — Paradise Found uses a type of farming called Vermiponics and Murals stacked four high. They can produce up to 110 pounds of leafy green vegetables a month. Ruth Jordan is the owner of ...

There’s a reason gardeners in South Florida call compost “black gold” and why many of them produce it in their own yards. “I find composting empowering; you don’t have to wait on anyone,” said Lanette ...

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 ...

Long, slimy, wiggly and ready to eat your garbage. Welcome to worm composting. Vermiculture, the formal term for worm composting, is the process of using worms and worm castings (poop) to turn waste ...

In this July 8, 2015, file photo a bumblebee gathers nectar on a wildflower. A United Nations sponsored scientific mega-report warns that too many species of pollinators are nearing extinction. These ...

Worm advocate Cathy Nesbitt raises red wiggler worms for "vermicomposting," composting kitchen waste into fertilizer. Nesbitt, whose company is Cathy’s Crawly Composters , in Ontario, Canada, is also ...