One of Lanette Sobel’s most trusted business partners is a worm. Actually, she works with lots of worms. They’re essential to her specialized six-acre farm in Homestead. While many of her agricultural ...

Miami-Dade has been slow to catch up with other states and other Florida communities in embracing large-scale composting. While landfills have continued to fill up, there hasn’t been a clear path in ...

As cities, farms, and businesses search for sustainable ways to manage organic waste, large-scale composting has emerged as one of the most practical and environmentally impactful solutions. From food ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

Food scraps from the Pinecrest Library drop-off location are dumped into a composting truck. D.A. Varela dvarela@miamiherald.com Miami-Dade has been slow to catch up with other states and other ...