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 ...

Worms are good for the garden soil for many reasons. Unparalleled as soil excavators, earthworms spend their lives ingesting, grinding, digesting and excreting soil–as much as 15 tons per acre goes ...

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 ...

Known also as worm compost, vermiculture, worm castings, worm humus or worm manure, vermicompost is similar to plain compost except that it uses worms in addition to microbes and bacteria to turn ...

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 ...

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, ...