Randy White, creator of the social networking site Bright Neighbor, preaches about the miracle of the worms. "Red wiggler worms, I believe, are better than gold." He's trying to turn into believers ...

Red wigglers from Will's Worms, a home-based business owned by siblings Will and Alyssa Hatanaka, ages 7 and 8. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler ...

Composting may be easier if you've got a big backyard, but it's also quite possible to compost indoors. One tried-and-true method is to employ the help of worms. “Worms are naturally part of the ...

To worm or not to worm? When it comes to composting, that's the question many savvy gardeners are pondering these days, and for good reason: Worm castings — a.k.a. poop — are the nutrient-rich organic ...

They arrived early on a Tuesday morning in a cardboard box. “1000 Red Worms,” read the label in large letters printed beneath the USPS tracking number. Return address: Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm. My ...

Worms are not native to North America. About 20,000 years ago, our continent experienced an Ice Age, along with Europe and Asia. The phenomenon decimated the worm population, with the only survivors ...

There are over 7,000 known species of earthworms. Some are purple. Some live 22 feet down in the soil. Some are nine feet long. Red wigglers, Eisenia fetida, are found in the upper layers of soil rich ...

Stephanie Davies and Amber Gribben, who run Urban Worm Girl, are Chicago evangelists of the ecological benefits of worms. So it was in character for them to ask the following question last month of a ...

A few weeks ago, my brother cleaned out the hay barn with the skid-steer before he started helping my dad bale round bales of hay. He had made a pile 6-plus-feet high of manure and old hay in front of ...

But now even bait has gone high tech. Including the lowly worm, that ground-boring little fish-getter you dug up as a kid. These days a worm is not merely a worm. The baits are specialized, for ...

Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler worms — could be the new livestock for Southern California gardeners ... if only they were easier to find. The demand for composting worms skyrocketed ...