Food waste — kitchen scraps, restaurant leftovers, and expired food that gets tossed out at grocery stores — decays quickly. That process generates more methane than any other material that ends up in ...

Someone preparing a bokashi compost bucket with lots of food scraps. - Guido Mieth/Getty Images By just looking at it, bokashi and worm composting (vermicomposting) might seem like similar ways to ...

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 ...

Worm composting, also known as vermicomposting, is really catching on in urban areas. If you don't have room or want to do traditional composting but really want to turn those kitchen scraps into ...

Meggie Smith has never liked worms much — she’s just not a nature person. But now she’s letting about a thousand of the slimy creatures live in her Evanston garage. There, in a covered bin next to her ...

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 ...

Jack Chambers held up a handful of rich, black compost. Hundreds of aptly named red wriggler worms were writhing within it. "These worms are made for composting," he said proudly, giving their Latin ...

What: Science Behind: Worm Composting. When: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Where: Walking Mountains Science Center, Avon. Cost: $20. More information: RSVP to Walking Mountains at 970-827-9725. AVON — ...

The end product of this work also varies. Bokashi produces pre-compost that requires it to be buried in soil to complete the decomposition, making nutrient-rich fertilizer in about two weeks. Worm ...