A Lake Oswego company makes this stackable worm composter, which can handle up to 5 pounds of food a day (with five trays) and creates rich compost and compost tea thanks to the castings left behind ...

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

Worms can compost kitchen scraps and shredded paper much faster than the aerobic compost process utilized in most commercial backyard compost bins. A vermicomposting (worm composting) bin can be built ...

Me too; I made my own worm bins from large plastic totes, and they work well. My only complaint is that separating out the finished compost is time-consuming and tedious. You’ve said that you use a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humans tend to waste a lot of food. It's a problem that has led innovators to come up with all kinds of ideas — for how we could change grocery shopping to how we could change cooking to how we could ...

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Carlsbad is offering compost and worm bins for sale at a reduced cost to city residents who want to recycle their food scraps and other biodegradable waste. Residents may select a stackable compost ...

Electric composters are a recent innovation with a promising future. Now you can compost at home in small spaces with no odors and minimal effort.

Ceramics master Jessica Panicola has created a new stackable pottery system in the form of Compottery, which uses worms to break down and recycle your household food waste to grow fresh produce using ...