GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Many of us have a compost pile in our backyard. It takes several months or even up to a year to compost our food scraps. Vermicomposting, or worm composting, is a quicker ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I live in a condominium with a small patio where I garden. I don’t have a place for a compost pile, but am thinking about a worm bin. Can you advise on the best way to get one ...

Rhonda Sherman, an extension specialist at N.C. State University, holds a handful of worms from a worm bin in her two-acre Compost Learning Lab at the Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory on Thursday, ...

Composting your kitchen scraps using worms not only is fun and easy, says Contra Costa Master Gardener Linda Mizes, your plants are going to love the end result. Worms convert those scraps into ...

Master Gardener Larry Steele holds red worm casting Lynn Ke.jpg Master Gardener Larry Steele holds a handful of hardworking red worms, which turn kitchen waste into nutritious castings. (Lynn Ketchum) ...

Finished blender compost should be easy to pour and have a soup-like consistency. If the slurry is too thick, add more water, or add more solids if it runs too thin. Once you’re done, empty out your ...

Worms can compost kitchen scraps and shredded paper much faster than the aerobic compost process utilized in most commercial backyard compost bins. A vermicomposting (worm composting) bin can be built ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Not everyone has a garden but if you want to be more environmentally friendly, you can throw scraps into a compost bin. As KOLR10’s Heather Lewis learned, composting is great for a ...

Operating out of a Granada Hills mansion with a geodesic dome and purple glass ceilings, an eccentric entrepreneur two decades ago led a worm mania that some later criticized as a pyramid scheme. Amid ...