Bonners Ferry, Idaho, resident Marciavee Cossette talks to her Georgia Redworms with the same passion that other people talk to their plants; worms are her friends and her business. Cossette calls ...

It’s not that they aren’t thriving, mind you. The little guys slither about in what I imagine must be a happy manner whenever I lift the lid of the vermicompost bin for a weekly feeding. I introduced ...

For years, I hot-composted our kitchen and garden waste. Every Saturday, I turned the compost piles with a pitchfork and wet them down to keep them decomposing. As my children grew older, I ran out of ...

I have employed hundreds of workers to transform my kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost for the garden. They work without pay and multiply like crazy. The workers are a hungry crew of worms -- ...

This East Bay garden has transformed into an immense cactus light show Busting the myth that California doesn’t have cold-season colors Want to attract butterflies to your garden? Consider these ...

Some grandmas do arts and crafts or bake cookies with their grandkids. Kim Ray of Londonderry raises worms. For several years, Ray has been learning about the little wigglers alongside her 9-year-old ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. (This is one in a series of posts in which Jeff Spurrier shares his ...