Home composting is essential for serious gardeners. Affectionately known as "black gold", compost is the nutritious, loamy ...

Operating out of a Granada Hills mansion with a geodesic dome and purple glass ceilings, an eccentric entrepreneur two decades ago led a worm mania that some later criticized as a pyramid scheme. Amid ...

To worm or not to worm? When it comes to composting, that's the question many savvy gardeners are pondering these days, and for good reason: Worm castings — a.k.a. poop — are the nutrient-rich organic ...

I first learned about ‘in situ’ worm communities several years ago in fruit orchards. Farmers were using a combination of in-orchard and in-ground vermiculture (cultivating/farming of worms) and ...

Red wigglers from Will's Worms, a home-based business owned by siblings Will and Alyssa Hatanaka, ages 7 and 8. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler ...

When Grant Estrade opened Laughing Buddha Nursery on Clearview Parkway in Metairie 13 years ago, he had a simple goal: to serve gardeners who wanted to grow vegetables and herbs organically. Over time ...

One of Lanette Sobel’s most trusted business partners is a worm. Actually, she works with lots of worms. They’re essential to her specialized six-acre farm in Homestead. While many of her agricultural ...

Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler worms — could be the new livestock for Southern California gardeners ... if only they were easier to find. The demand for composting worms skyrocketed ...