Butte County is best known for rice fields and orchards, but a family-run worm farm in Durham is carving out a unique role in ...

The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings show a systematic ...

The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings published in the ...

Scott Poynton is the head of The Forest Trust, an international non-profit that works on addressing environmental challenges. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. From what I’m told, ...

We talked to a horticulturalist about how to attract earthworms and keep them happy. Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a ...

Worms have been born in a Mars soil simulant for the first time, bringing the prospect of farming on the Red Planet a step closer to reality. As earthworms are fundamental to healthy soil on Earth, ...

What fascinates you? What warrants your fixation? At the risk of being dismissed as certifiably weird, may I humbly submit the earthworm as deserving of both fascination and fixation? Raise worms and ...

If you want to know the local soil conditions, it would be great if you could just ask an earthworm. Given that that's an impossibility, though, scientists are now working on the next-best thing – ...

Some seemingly harmless creatures on your farm will often spring surprises when it comes to diseases or even the death of your livestock. Today, I narrate an enquiry from Moses Were a poultry farmer.