Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one popular online lesson from 4-H, educators present worm composting, turning food waste into usable compost for the garden.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vermiculture compost bin used to teach schoolkids about composting with red wriggler worms. (Photo by Bella Quiroa) We see ...

Here's a promising get-rich-quick scheme for gardeners: It's called vermiculture, or worm composting, and along with super-sizing crop yields, it cuts water bills, conditions soils and repels ...

Myles Stubblefield was a self-described “dirty kid" growing up in Buffalo, New York. “I had my hands in every dirt pile," he tells Treehugger. "I played with worms every time we went fishing, and any ...

Wiggly worms are gobbling garbage at Saginaw Valley State University. The creatures, called red wigglers, are being used to digest hundreds of pounds of food waste a week from campus dining centers ...

Take a peek at what the eighth graders at Manlius Pebble Hill are working on in class with staff photographer John Berry. Half of a baked potato doused in sour cream, orange rinds, a banana peel, an ...

Last week, David White closed the books on a grant-funded composting initiative, ending a two-year program based in the Ojai Valley which served schools and community gardens in several local cities.

The bag arrives in the mail, and I quickly open it to make sure they are still alive. They are! They are a squirming, writhing ball of Red Wriggler worms. Their Latin name is Eisenia fetida, and among ...