If you want nutrient-rich soil for your garden next spring, start composting today. You can turn dead garden plants, leaves, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Besides being my new favorite insult phrase, the Urban Worm bag is a versatile all-star compost factory. It's quick to set up and easy to maintain because there are no trays. Just put bedding in the ...

QuickCook: Gazpacho with a secret ingredient How to pickle your garden harvest of peppers, cucumber and even watermelon Move over, green lawns. Drier, warmer climate boosts interest in low-water ...

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.

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 ...

The Washington State University Skagit County Extension has long had programs related to food waste prevention and fighting climate change. Now the extension is showing it is more than just talking ...

Jeremiah Picard’s hands are black from dipping his hands repeatedly into the earth. The 40-year-old Lincoln man isn’t a farmer, however. He’s a worm producer. And a new commercial worm farm he’s ...

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 ...