Impressed by compost's contribution to the soil, gardeners conferred on it the nickname "black gold." Even more beneficial worm castings could take the title "black diamonds." Just ask Larry Steele, ...

Here are some tips for creating your own worm compost bin: Get yourself a bin. You can make or buy one. If you make one, make sure it has plenty of air vents. Without air circulating through the bin, ...

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 ...

They arrived early on a Tuesday morning in a cardboard box. “1000 Red Worms,” read the label in large letters printed beneath the USPS tracking number. Return address: Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm. My ...

The California Integrated Waste Management Board estimates that at least 10 million tons of compostable organics are still being sent to California landfills each year, approximately 25 percent of all ...

If any process can directly demonstrate the complex web of life and the mysterious cycles of death, decay and rebirth, it’s composting. Humans have been composting in one form or another for more than ...