While many home gardeners compost traditionally with an outdoor pile or bin, vermicomposting can be a more compact way to recycle kitchen scraps utilizing the power of worms. Vermicomposting is a form ...

Square? Round? Worm bin? Tumbler? Choosing a compost bin is one of the most important decisions in life. Okay, not really. But choosing the right compost bin is the first step in the journey to ...

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 ...

If your garden could ask, it would have only one thing on its holiday wish list: a worm bin. Experienced gardeners know that abundant harvests are fed by the health, makeup and diversity of their soil ...

Learning how to compost can be a messy process. When done poorly, it invites pests into your home and creates an imbalanced heap of noxious liquids and gases that are tough to neutralize. However, ...

As of April 1, 2025, composting (which turns food scraps into nutrients) is now mandatory in New York City. Even if you don’t live in the Big Apple (and aren’t facing the threat of fines), this ...

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 ...

What do you need to start home composting? Are you interested in composting at home but not sure where to begin? Composting is incredibly simple and requires just a little planning and some small ...

It doesn’t take a lot of time or investment to create worm bins filled with red wigglers that will break down food scraps into rich compost for the garden. There’s a yardstick among gardeners that ...