CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Worms have traditionally been viewed as a gardener’s best friend. This is because they are important decomposers that help return organic matter and nutrients to the soil and ...

Whether your goal is to reduce what you put in the landfill, grow bigger plants, improve the quality of the air around you or all of the above – composting is the way to go. There are lots of ways to ...

Oct 20, 2018 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Add to Calendar 20-10-2018 10:00 20-10-2018 12:00 America/Toronto How to Vermicompost (plus build a bin!) Have you ever wanted to compost, but didn’t have the space ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Rhonda Sherman knows worms. This wasn’t intentional — not really. In 1980, when she was in college in her native Michigan, Sherman chose solid waste management. She started out ...

Just a few years ago, I barely recycled. Living in a Hobbit-sized apartment in Brooklyn, I didn’t want to use up precious space with a recycling bin, especially because the recycling situation in my ...

Traditional composting can be difficult for smaller households who generate limited amounts of “green” and “brown” materials or who have limited space for a compost bin or pile. Composting with earth ...

Rhonda Sherman, an extension specialist at N.C. State University, holds a handful of worms from a worm bin in her two-acre Compost Learning Lab at the Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory on Thursday, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Rhonda Sherman knows worms. This wasn’t intentional — not really. In 1980, when she was in college in her native Michigan, Sherman chose solid waste management. She started out ...

This wasn’t intentional — not really. In 1980, when she was in college in her native Michigan, Sherman chose solid waste management. She started out correlating contaminated groundwater with area ...