There are a few interesting facts in this article.
Here are some amazing facts for worm farm enthusiasts that can help a lot in getting to know more about the lowly creature.
Worm farming is a fun and easy activity. It is good for the environment and the worm compost created will help your flowers and plants to grow.
There are a few interesting facts in this article.
Here are some amazing facts for worm farm enthusiasts that can help a lot in getting to know more about the lowly creature.
Learn how 15,000 pounds of waste was kept out of landfills through the use of a worm farm.
Thanks to a grant from the SVSU Foundation and support from WIRED, students at SVSU are learning more about the environment through the unique process of worm composting.
Check out this conference at Princeton. Kids can learn how to set up a worm farm.
New to the conference this year is a conference for kids presented in collaboration with the New Jersey Farm to School Network. Some of the topics for children are “Homemade Scents,” “Worm Composting” and “Supermarket Spy Kids.”
Nice video about setting up a worm farm.
If you live in an apartment and still want to compost this may be for you.
This is a nice post which explains how to set up and maintain a worm farm.
Prepare the box for worms. Fill your bin with thin strips of unbleached corrugated cardboard or shredded newspaper, straw, dry grass, or some similar material.
Some ideas for learning about vermiculture.
The fact of the matter is the labor is free, it takes up a small amount of shelf space, it’s odorless, and start up costs run as low as $35. Oh yes, you produce Organic Fertilizer in the process as well. It’s called Vermiculture.
Fun blog post about a worm farm.
I received my worm farm for Mother's Day. An unorthodox gift? Perhaps. But I'd take these red wiggler worms over a box of candy and overpriced flowers any day. Read more: Worms in My Stocking?
What a great gift idea for a science teacher!
The gift? A worm condominium. Yup, I’m giving my kid’s teacher worms!
You need to try vermicomposting. It’s ideal for small spaces and can be done indoors, which makes it perfect for apartment dwellers.
Place those waste items in a special bin loaded with hungry worms and allow them to feast to their hearts content. As the worms digest their meal, you will end up with easy to apply liquid fertilizer and worm casting that can be mixed with soil for added enrichment.
How Worm Compost Helps Your Plants, Health and the Environment
Here is one way to occupy the kids.
Luckily, there are more than 100 activities on offer throughout the month of January including snorkelling, sea kayaking, bush walks, marine sculpture lesson, DIY worm farming and home sustainability, and so much more.
Keep the kids busy with free and low cost Summerama activities
You need to try vermicomposting. It’s ideal for small spaces and can be done indoors, which makes it perfect for apartment dwellers.
The bottom of this post talks about reusing an old fridge for a worm farm. Interesting idea.
The Fridge is insulated against heat and cold, is white (doesn't attract heat like black) and is providing a lot larger surface area for the worms. I am hoping that this will keep them happy and healthy enough to multiply to a number that will deal with all of our household waste that cannot go to the chickens.
If you are in the area check out these classes.
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (RCCC) is offering a course in organic gardening and worm composting or farming in January. Those interested will have a choice of two dates and locations to take the course.
One more community is getting involved in worm composting.
Port Moody council gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a worm composting program in 2011.
Vermiculture is the process or technology of raising, reproducing and maintaining earthworms artificially.
Worm farms, radio stations, gardening clubs & pig buckets are just a few of the sustainability initiatives underway by pupils of St Albans School.
Looking for a home-based business idea? Try Worm Farming
More and more people are turning to home based business to earn extra cash...Take for example vermiculture.
Organic Farming Business | Home Based Business- Vermiculture
Some interesting facts about the Red Wiggler Worm-Eisenia Fetida.
Eisenia fetida or red worms are the most common and widely used composting worms around the world
Read how one company and its employees have expanded their recycling efforts.
With the compostable materials being brought in, the workers added more bins in the garden, and a couple months ago took it to the next level with "vermiculture," adding worms to speed the composting.
This article points out how one area in Alberta, Canada is managing their organic waste.
Ventilated plastic storage containers filled with moistened soil, shredded newspaper and red wiggler worms were added to six classrooms in November.
How about giving a worm farm to someone as a Christmas gift? Check out this article for some interesting ideas.
URALLA’S Unique Christmas Market has raised a high level of excitement in the town.
Read about the "greenest restaurant" in the United States.
Beyond recycling paper, plastic and glass, the staff will send used cooking oils to a biofuels recycler, take compostable materials to their home compost piles or an area farm and shred the recycled-paper menus to help feed the farm's vermiculture — a.k.a. worm composting — operation.
Isn't this an interesting idea? I wonder if the vermicast that is created is safe as a plant fertilizer.
Teams of researchers in Venezuela and Argentina are on the verge of elevating the lowly earthworm to rockstar status when it comes to cleaning up hazardous materials.
After worm bins were neglected over a school break, students worked diligently to bring them back.
But the team was dedicated to fixing the worm bins. Some of the group shredded paper, some worked on cleaning some messes that arose.
Something a little different today. This video explores ways that prisons are learning about projects that save the prisons money and benefit the environment.
As part of our NewsHour Connect series showcasing public media reporting from around the nation, Jule Gilfillan reports for Oregon Public Broadcasting on a program that has inmates working on environmental projects to conserve water and help protect endangered spotted frogs.
Oregon Inmates Help Protect Endangered Frog, Prison Budget
Another City Farm is in the planning stages.
A stone's throw from Central Station, a dusty gravel lot squeezed between a warehouse and the light-rail line has been chosen by the City of Sydney council as the best site for Sydney's first City Farm.
Back To The Future As Urban Jungle To Make Way For Bucolic Bliss
Here is another technique for setting up and maintaining your worm farm.
I've seen worm bins where you fill the bottom bin up, stack on another bin which you fill up and into which worms migrate as they finish the bottom bin, and so forth, but this would be a very bulky system on any scale larger than a few cubic feet.
This article raises some interesting questions about composting.
Because once we start to see our compost bins, heaps or tumblers as the massive store of biodiversity that they are, we get a deeper understanding of the vast, mostly invisible networks of plants and animals that make life on earth possible.
Composting As Animal Husbandry - Moving Way Beyond Recycling
Looking for a cheap, easy, and fast way to compost your everyday kitchen scraps? If so, vermicomposting is exactly what you’re looking for.
Wow, you should listen to this kid! He's got a mission.
11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms.
Topics include volunteer management, soil fertility, integrated pest management, tillage, weed management, greenhouse operations, composting, worm composting, diversity training and much more.
You can recycle your waste with the help of worms. Vermicomposting (composting with worms) turns many kinds of kitchen waste into a nutritious fertilizer for plants.
Ann McGovern, The Green Team program coordinator and Consumer Waste Reduction coordinator for the Department of Environmental Protection, said there has been a steady increase in the number of schools beginning composting and organic gardening, especially as word spreads across the state of the success of existing programs.
The Trash Museum in Hartford, CT sounds like a fun place to visit.
Anyone who was brave enough could hold the worms.
Worm farming allows you to use scraps from fruits and vegetables to create potting soil for plants in your garden or inside your home. The best thing about this is that anyone can do it, no matter if you live in a farm or an apartment.
This article and video explain how vermicomposting and worm farms actually work.
Our project team found limited benefits associated with direct soil applications of vermicompost. However, we did find that vermicompost can be an important component of potting media for producing vegetable transplants without synthetic fertilizers.
Good article about a school which has a Hydroponic Greenhouse.
A minute later, a little girl in pink came up with the answer. “Greenhouse!” she shrieked as her hand shot into the air.
Here are some tips on a home-based vermiculture business.
Vermiculture is the cultivation of earthworms to produce compost for plants. Vermicompost or vermicast is a very potent food for plants.
Check out this video with some composting ideas.
Alison from HealthNutNation.com shares four simple ways to compost at home. Whether you live in a small apartment or on acreage, there is a composting solution for you.
Here is a funny video with the mistakes that were made while filming the 4 Ways to Compost video.4 Ways to Compost
There is no denying the fact that worms are Mother Nature’s ultimate recyclers—ingesting waste and churning out black gold.
Read about another building going green complete with a worm farm in the basement.
Ward has started a small vermiculture operation with red worms eating the compostible food waste generated from the office. Contained in a plastic bin, the activity is totally odourless and creates compost for gardens.
This looks like a good workshop.
The workshop explores the soil food web that nourishes healthy, happy plants in gardens and orchards.
| 'Growing Soil: Secrets to Healthy Plants,' community workshop offered Dec. 11 |
This blog shows what worm castings look like.
If you're new to worm composting, you might be wondering what worm castings look like.
Free two-hour workshops will focus on setting up and producing home compost and will explore practical applications for the finished product.
Learn how to compost and watch worms turn with National Recycling Week
If you are on the Big Island of Hawaii on December 4th why not attend these composting workshops?
Please join us for a fun, interactive and informative 2-Part workshop on basic home composting.
The first half of our workshop will focus on backyard composting. The second will discuss worm
composting.
This is a great science project.
In this activity, students will discuss the difference between organic and inorganic material, and how this distinction affects decomposition. The lesson will culminate with students building a composting column of soil and shredded organic material so that they can observe the decomposition process over the course of three to five weeks.
Great article about worm composting.
This week I was chosen to take the worms home from the garden center. It’s just like being the kid who wins the class tarantula or guinea pig to take home over vacation.
When raising worms such as red wiggler worms, you should be able to know how to make good use of them. When you’re able to maintain and care for their habitat well, and also feed them the right kinds of organic wastes, then they’ll be able to produce nutrient-packed and quality-rich worm castings for you (also known as worm poop or compost).
If you are in the Somerville, MA area check out this vermicomposting class.
We’re posting today to inform you of an exciting upcoming opportunity to expand your composting skills and jump aboard with vermicomposting!!!
This post has shows you a great way to create your own worm farm.
Inspired by some pretty neat worm systems that I found on the web, I set out to design something that would work very well, yet could be built with scrap or easily available material.
This Master Recycler is thrilled to have her own worm composting bin.
Worm composting is also called vermicomposting. It uses red wiggler worms (not the night crawlers you'd use for fishing) that eat the food waste and then turn it into compost
Interesting article about the use of vermicompost and the amazing results found in vineyards.
The typical loss rate in the early 2000s for grape vine plantings was 25 percent, but with a trial application rate of one cup of vermicompost per plant, only two of 400 plants were lost at the vineyard located on the Worm Farm.
Read about an ingenious way to make a nice outdoor worm bin.
So when I moved into my new place last month, I decided to build a big bin, something designed for my admittedly prodigious composting habit. You can do this too: all you really need is a wooden box with ventilation, and voila! Worm bin.
Nice post about vermiculture.
The Red Wiggler worms used for vermiculture are a special variety.
Check this class out if you are in the West Milford, NJ area.
There will be a brief introduction to vermicomposting, involving using worms to create compost, with a discussion about some common misconceptions and limitations, and the costs involved in setting up a system.
An update on his worm farm. He should dampen the newspaper so that the worms would eat that as well, plus it would add moisture to the worm farm. Worms depend on that moisture.
It has been 3 weeks since I built my red wiggler worm composting bin. It sure seems to have a lot of worm castings inside already.
Check out this Eco-Fair if you are in the Honolulu, HI area on Sunday.
For her senior project, Ige has organized a festival promoting going green and helping the earth. There will be vendors of University of Hawaii students and others doing things ranging from gardening to worm composting to aquaponics.
This blog post is an excellent guide for starting a no-dig garden and explains the reasons why worms are an essential part of the process.
The gardener’s friend, the humble earth worm, is nature’s underground dynamo. When you make a no-dig grow-bed without a solid bottom (for example you recycle an old rainwater tank and cut the bottom out), worms in the soil underneath and nearby will then have access. They will work their way up from below, aerating the bed and enriching the soil mix as they go.
Nice video of how schools are worm composting table scraps.
Perhaps the thought of having a personal supply of nutrient rich soil for the garden or flower beds sounds appealing.
Nice 4-H project to teach kids about worm farming and vermicomposting.
The worm farms aim to introduce and grow entrepreneurship education with 4-H youth members and volunteers, Barrett said.
Some great ideas for schools to become more energy efficient and recycle the waste that is produced. Worm composting is one of those ideas.
At Minnetonka's Deephaven Elementary School, worm farms turn snack scraps into compost.
Blog post by sophomore Environmental Studies Major
I've grown so used to using vermiculture that I almost forget it's different.
Well no, none of my friends compost with worms that I know of. But it's a fairly low maintenance way of reducing your waste.
Check out this video showing how to make a worm farm.
Not only is it great for your garden, but it will help reduce waste in landfills by getting your kitchen scraps to work for you and your edible landscape. At home, I compost kitchen scraps, leaves, and other green matter.
After reading this article you may find yourself wanting to run out and start composting or vermi-composting (composting with worms) straightaway.
Now is the time to start a worm farm so that you will have plenty of worm compost ready for the garden next year.
Now that the summer heat is slowly making way for Fall, we're going to build ourselves a worm composting bin for worm tea and worm castings for our garden.
Worm composting, vermiculture - Let's build a worm composting bin!
Here is a great class if you want to become a Master Composter.
The Master Composter Seminar will emphasize sustainable landscaping by the use of homemade compost. The seminar is a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) certification training program open to any individual who would like to learn more about a sustainable lifestyle.
Nice post about setting up a worm farm.
Yes, I’m writing about something completely different this week. Worms, or better yet, worm composting. These might seem like wet, squiggly little pests, but in reality, they are a very important part of our life.
Great school program to teach kids about worm farming and composting fruit and vegetable waste.
Runfola explained how to create a composting bin, and students worked at various stations in the classroom to participate in each part of the process.
Never too early to go green: Program teaches children about health and environment
This school is using a worm farm to compost some of their garbage.
For the 2010-2011 school year, Montini Catholic High School was awarded an Environmental Education Grant from the Village of Lombard. This grant funding to Montini Catholic provided the school with Worm Composters. The Science Department at Montini Catholic High School has these indoor worm composters on display and in use all year round.
Montini Catholic Students Get Worm Composters With the Lombard Environmental Grant
Here is a landscape company that has eliminated gas lawnmowers. They are also looking for someone to help set up worm composting. Anyone out there interested in this job?
Most investors think I’m nuts eyes when I start talking about red wiggler worms and top dressing until I explain the cost benefit.
I need to learn a lot more about worms or hire someone to be a worm whisperer.
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What happens at this point is worms will find the food waste, eat it, and then the worm’s own waste will turn into compost for your soil.
Going Green Also Means Reducing Landfill Needs
Read about the worm farming that this school does. They create their own vermicompost for the school's greenhouse.
If you walk down the hallways of Lindsay Park School you will see a bin outside every classroom door. At first glance it may seem like a bin full of dirt, but a closer look will reveal worms in the dirt — in fact the red wiggler worms are creating the dirt.
Great project underway in the Bay of Plenty. The worm compost created will benefit kiwi growers.
Millions of worms are set to be put to work in the Bay of Plenty with the announcement of funding approval yesterday (SUBS: WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER) for a large-scale composting project.
This video demonstrates setting up a worm farm.
This is my first attempt at building a worm composting bin out of two 18 gallon totes.
How to build a worm composting bin - vermiculture for beginners
Good summary of the steps for starting your worm farm.
Ever think about putting composting worms to work under your kitchen sink? Sounds weird if it's the first time you've been exposed to the idea, but consider this: Worms can recycle your kitchen waste - fruit and vegetable trimmings, tea bags, coffee grounds - into a rich, dark, earth-smelling soil conditioner.
I know the worm bin will produce lots of compost for them.
Now that the summer heat is slowly making way for Fall, we're going to build ourselves a worm composting bin for worm tea and worm castings for our garden.
Worm composting, vermiculture - Let's build a worm composting bin!
A great idea for taking care of all the rotten apples that are being produced.
Bragta said vermiculture would not only enhance the income of the farmers but also help proper management of the crop.
Good use of an old bathtub-now a worm farm.
Finally, got around to setting it up as a worm farm.
This article outlines lots of composting ideas.
Special worms are used in Vermicomposting: Eisenia foetida or Lumbricus rubellas, which can be ordered from worm farms, or some nurseries.
This could be a good deal if you want to start a worm farm.
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Here are some tips for using worms in your compost pile.
Red wrigglers are also valuable to other people who are looking for a quick boost to their compost piles or kitchen worm boxes.
This is a great program. More communities should implement some of these ideas.
New York has become a centre for compost co-ops, especially after cutbacks two years ago forced the city sanitation department to drastically cut back on a program that had offered the public free compost.
At compost co-operatives, city residents share table scraps, reap fertilizer
A nice blog post about one family's experience with a worm farm.
Wriggling in dirt and slimy mashed bits of food probably seems like common sense to a two-year-old.
Put your pizza boxes to good use-feed them to the worms in your worm farm.
And for those with worm farms, worms love pizza boxes as much as humans love pizza.
This video shows you how to set up an inexpensive worm farm.
Three cheap plastic storage bins is all you need to make your own indoor worm compost system.