WASHINGTON — Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root ...

There, he has 4,500 square feet of space filled with 4-by-4-foot growing boxes. He figures he has about 400 pounds of worms, the young ones chomping on wheat middlings and the mature worms on protein ...

Has this cold, dreary weather been making you wish you could get outside and play in the “dirt”? Or perhaps you’re looking for ways to improve your garden soil during the winter. Worm composting, or ...