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 ...

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 ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...

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 ...

At Santa Monica College, some 400,000 red wiggler worms transform 300 pounds of campus waste into nutrient-rich soil every week. Why it matters: The worm composting system is part of broader efforts ...

It’s full of squirming worms buried just beneath the surface. Located near South Mountain, the farm breeds red wiggler worms for vermicomposting, which is the process of using worms to break down food ...

If your garden could ask, it would have only one thing on its holiday wish list: a worm bin. Experienced gardeners know that abundant harvests are fed by the health, makeup and diversity of their soil ...