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 ...

CINCINNATI — Finding sustainable solutions can be overwhelming but Katie Jacobs found that one helpful creature is wiggling around right under our feet. Jacobs, a recent college graduate, was working ...

If you live in an apartment or condo, perhaps you think composting is only for green-thumbers with vast yards and a lot of time on their hands. But the advent of worm-bin composting means that even ...

SEATTLE — Composting is a great way to keep your food scraps from ending up in a landfill while delivering nutrient-rich soil in return. It sounds great, but if you’ve ever tried composting, you know ...

Recycle coffee grounds? Did you know that they can be used as compost for both garden and house plants? We have recently learned of a Starbucks plan that enables us to do just that. Under the program ...

If you want to reduce waste and grow healthier plants but don’t have a backyard, composting is still possible.

The University of California’s Master Gardener Program in Ventura County is offering a free workshop, “The Basics of Composting and Vermicomposting,” three times during October. The Master Gardener ...

Chris Jung has 100,000 worms he wants to sell you. In the backyard of his family’s Glendale home, where those 100 pounds of red wigglers live happily in wooden boxes, they produce some of the most ...

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