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 ...

Q: I live in an apartment and would like to compost using worms. Can you tell me more about how to get started? A: Composting using worms is called vermicomposting. This type of composting uses worms ...

Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on solar, and navigated the changing energy landscape to help people make smart energy decisions. He's a graduate of the Knight Center for Environmental ...

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 ...

Square? Round? Worm bin? Tumbler? Choosing a compost bin is one of the most important decisions in life. Okay, not really. But choosing the right compost bin is the first step in the journey to ...

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, ...

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 ...

It looks like rich, dark compost. It contains five times more nitrogen, seven times more phosphorus and 11 times more potassium than ordinary soil. It’s vermicompost – super soil produced as a result ...

Sonoma County is about to roll out the red carpet for some unlikely celebrities: worms. With two composting workshops on the calendar this fall, locals have a chance to see firsthand how these slim, ...

The end product of this work also varies. Bokashi produces pre-compost that requires it to be buried in soil to complete the decomposition, making nutrient-rich fertilizer in about two weeks. Worm ...

Mark asks: I have a worm composting bin in a shady spot in my backyard. It was working well for a while. Now I have cockroaches in the bin. Will they harm the worms? Should I try to get rid Tropical ...