I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I ...

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 ...

For years, the only thing I knew about red wigglers was their claim to fame as the featured worm on signs that advertised fishing bait in front of bait and tackle shops. But these days red wigglers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Master Gardener Larry Steele holds red worm casting Lynn Ke.jpg Master Gardener Larry Steele holds a handful of hardworking red worms, which turn kitchen waste into nutritious castings. (Lynn Ketchum) ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kelly Hammel never expected to become a worm farmer, but a work accident led him to the hobby, which has now become a small business. In 2015, Hammel, who owns Worm Hippie Worm ...

Rhonda Sherman holds a handful of red wigglers and their castings. This story is part of an occasional series called Dream Jobs profiling North Carolinians with jobs that may be unique, distinctive or ...