Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Rocio Egio / For The Times) To worm or not to worm? When it comes to composting, that's the question many savvy gardeners are ...

For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising worms – both the small ...

Organic material will turn into compost on its own… eventually, but you can speed up the process with worms. Worm composting, or vermicomposting, can increase the time it takes to go from kitchen ...

Humans tend to waste a lot of food. It's a problem that has led innovators to come up with all kinds of ideas — for how we could change grocery shopping to how we could change cooking to how we could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Follow these step-by-step instructions to boost your composting game with worms. “Vermicompost has higher nutrient concentrations ...

For years, I hot-composted our kitchen and garden waste. Every Saturday, I turned the compost piles with a pitchfork and wet them down to keep them decomposing. As my children grew older, I ran out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Invasive jumping worms destroy forests by eating leaf litter. Learn how backyard composting spreads them and how to stop it ...

Red wigglers from Will's Worms, a home-based business owned by siblings Will and Alyssa Hatanaka, ages 7 and 8. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler ...

Meggie Smith has never liked worms much — she’s just not a nature person. But now she’s letting about a thousand of the slimy creatures live in her Evanston garage. There, in a covered bin next to her ...

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 ...