It doesn’t take a lot of time or investment to create worm bins filled with red wigglers that will break down food scraps into rich compost for the garden. There’s a yardstick among gardeners that ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — Vv Acevedo reaches into one of the dirt piles that line the Arizona Worm Farm and pulls out a handful of dirt. It’s full of squirming worms buried just beneath the surface. Located near ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Michigan State, 51,000 students produce 14,000 pounds of food waste across MSU’s 30 dining locations in a single day. Generally, food waste is sent to decompose in open air in a landfill, producing ...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Food waste in the U.S. makes up between 30% to 40% of the food supply. Though waste is inevitable, when it ends up in landfills, it can have detrimental impacts on the ...

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 ...