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If you have taken the step to start a compost pile for your garden, it is time to take one more step and consider vermicomposting, or composting with worms. Unlike a traditional compost pile, vermicomposting is a wonderful and efficient way to dispose of kitchen waste and turn it into high quality organic compost. You ...

Vermiculture or vermicomposting is the method of using worms to break down organic matter into useable compost for your garden. This method is catching on throughout the US, and you can often find “worm bins” for composting in your gardening ...

Every seasoned gardener knows that worms are essential to healthy soil, and an increasing number of gardeners are using that scientific fact to their benefit. By setting up a worm composting system, gardeners can produce super-rich fertilizer, get rid of ...

I lived in ignorant bliss for years. Like many keepers of small ruminants up north, I was more complacent than I should have been about the possibility of parasites. As a general rule of thumb, these organisms have been more ...

Were you one of those children who loved to pick up wiggling worms after a rain? You can still play with these helpful friends as an adult gardener. Worms are actually quite the composters themselves and through the art of ...

The biggest cost of producing eggs on the homestead is purchasing commercial feed rather than maximizing homegrown feeds that nature readily provides. An easy trick to providing food and exercise for your flock in the fall and early winter is ...

Winter composting shouldn’t be a hassle. There are many easy ways to create and maintain usable compost year-round, and winter composting actually has several advantages. It produces fertilizer for spring planting, so there is no rush to the garden center ...

Adding goats to your homestead has many benefits, including milk, meat and rearing baby goats for sale. But if you have ever heard that goats are easy keepers and you won’t have to worry about anything, you may not have ...

Internal parasites are one of the most common problems encountered in animal husbandry, including livestock and household pets. In my experience, worms can quickly become a serious issue – living in a warm climate unfortunately means that the little worms ...

They make many people cringe and little boys love to taunt little girls with them, but earthworms are endlessly useful. Without them, our soil would not be as amenable to growing crops as it is. Depending on where you live, ...