Ciscoe and Meeghan tell you everything you need to know about building your own worm box.

The kitchen prep line at the legislative cafeteria in Raleigh generates about 40 pounds of food scraps a day. At most restaurants and home kitchens in America, scraps like those wind up in landfills, ...

In teacher Michael Taylor’s perfect world, every home in Glendale has worms. Purplish-brown worms that eat trash and wiggle in order to breathe through their skin and have five hearts, dual sex organs ...

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 ...

Satirist Stephen Colbert envisions his “Colbert Nation” mentally marching in lockstep with his special brand of patriotism. But scientists have done him one better, by creating tiny worm-bots ...

(2) 8- to 10-gallon plastic storage boxes (dark, not see-through) Drill (1/4- and 1/16-inch bits) Newspaper About one pound of red worms 1. Drill about 20 evenly spaced 1/4-inch holes in the bottom of ...