What comes out of the tail end of worms appears to be very good for crops. On small farms and in gardens around the world, a legless invertebrate has been quietly helping crops grow — simply by eating ...

Modern farming techniques have brought the world a wonderful bounty of agriculture, but they’ve also been terrible news for the Earth’s “digestive system,” the delicate 10 to 12 inches of topsoil ...

A reader wrote to me recently, inquiring about the cumulative costs of growing vegetables at home versus purchasing ready-to-eat from a grocer. I could relate to this excellent question, but it was ...

Their "castings" (worm poop) are particularly good for fertility and soil structure. When you lift some soil, you want to see lots of these little guys in the top layer, as this indicates reasonably ...

BAY CITY, MI — Bay City is offering residents a new program where they can turn their food waste into worm food and, ultimately, fertilizer. Bay City recently launched the pilot food scrap collection ...

In an office on Jefferson Street, Bartelt Engineering’s staff is designing green solutions to treat winery wastewater, using thousands of wriggling worms. The wastewater treatment systems they are ...