Tom Szaky had a billion worms eating cafeteria scraps and squeezing out four tons of worm poop a day when I first ran into him in 2007. He’d pour the worm waste into used soda bottles and sell it as ...

Mutant constipated worms. It's a topic we all THINK about a lot; but what do we really KNOW about it? The answer, I am pleased to report, is: more every day, thanks to the efforts of a professor named ...

In the last 8 years, I've replanted all my back yard grass into a half-acre vegetable garden with perennial and annual beds, too. However, I have been perplexed by the lack of earthworms. The previous ...

Nicholas Ward, a local filmmaker and artist, helps a group of Cordley Elementary School students sort their lunch scraps into bins for compost materials, non-compost materials and recyclables. Ward ...

Today we celebrate the humble toilet and draw attention to all those who don’t have one, so check out this latest, grossly awesome bathroom innovation. In honor of World Toilet Day–a day to remember ...

Jeremy Gedert knows the value of worms. He and his wife, Kellie, maintain a small urban worm farm at their Northland home. They call it "One 20 Farm," which is derived from a verse in the Book of ...

UNION GROVE — Tom Chapman is turning the family business over to his kids. It’s not a diner or a mechanic shop or a corner store. It’s a warehouse full of 4.5 million scientifically cultivated worms ...

A cheap lens, flashlight and a little plastic wrap can turn a smart phone into a field microscope to test children for intestinal worms, researchers reported on Monday. Microscopes are scarce in the ...

While digging up the land to redo the chicken fence, the Owen family discovered hundreds of worms and started selling them as bait. Sarah Owen, left, turns a shovel of dirt while children Lauren, ...