Three Kinds Of Composting

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This is a nice article explaining the different types of composting.

 

Many people are familiar with aerobic composting, commonly achieved by using compost piles. But there is more than one way to compost your yard, kitchen and garden waste.

The Three Basic Kinds Of Composting

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This post discusses the worm farm one week after she added the worms.

 

Worm Composting Wednesday

 

It has officially been one week since my worms arrived and I think I'm doing pretty good at my journey into worm composting. When I say I am doing pretty good I am going on the basis of my worms are not all dead.

Composting Methods

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Take a look at some ways to create your own all-natural compost.

 

There are several composting methods with various techniques, effort, and expense. It is important to choose the composting technique that suits your needs and lifestyle best. 

 

 

Different Composting Methods

Bronx Green-Up

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Here's a great program for people in the Bronx. Go check it out!

 

And then there's Jodie Colon, Bronx Green-Up's very own "Compost Queen." Colon and her staff teach composting classes at the Botanical Garden and at various community gardens. Colon, who is passionate about recycling food scraps, mixing them with garden waste, and putting the local earthworms to work, believes New Yorkers can easily handle a small worm bin in their apartments if they don't have outdoor space for a full-sized compost bin. She's even got a compost hotline in case you need urgent answers, called "The Rotline" (718-817-8543).

Bronx Green-Up Wants New Yorkers to Make Friends with Worms

Japanese Worm Hired To Gobble Up Chinese Garbage

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See how a half Japanese, half Chinese worm may help with China's garbage problem.

 

Cultivated by the Japanese about three decades ago, this particular type of worm can reproduce a hundredfold each year, according to Lü Zhongliang, manager of Lühuanjingyu, a company in Shunyi district that produces 60,000 tons of worm fertilizer a year.

 

Japanese worm hired to gobble up garbage

What is vermicomposting?

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Good article about worm composting and setting up a worm farm.

 

Before you add your worms, give them a bed of shredded paper in the top bin. The paper should be moist. Add the worms, and some fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen, and your composting worms will go to work. Worms are hungry creatures, so you will have to keep adding materials periodically to keep them happy and productive.

 

 

What is vermicomposting?

Raise Worms

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This is a post that gets right to the point with instructions for setting up a worm bin.

First compost ready in two to three months.

Raise worms

Untitled

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I like this story about using old greenhouses to raise fish and vegetables.

Worm castings will be added as an antibiotic for the fish and fertilizer for the plants.

Aquaponics project to launch in Santa Cruz

Worms Do The Work

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A good post about worm farming.

 

Basically, the worms are just fed organic material such as that used in a normal compost pile.

Worm farming, where the worms do all the work and get all the advantages

Worm Composting For The Entire Family

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Here's a fun project for the entire family.

 

If you’re thinking about starting up a family-friendly composting project, why not consider doing one that involves worms? That’s right, worm composting, also known as vermicomposting, is a fun-filled way to get the compost you desire for your garden. All you and your kids have to do is keep the worms happy by feeding them and they’ll do all the work for you. 

 

Worm Composting Fun for the Family

Composting 101 for citydwellers

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Here's a way to give garbage a second chance!

 

If you're going to all the trouble to eat locally grown, organic vegetables, it's rather a shame to truck their remains away to landfill prison when you could be feeding them back to the earth.

 

Composting 101 for citydwellers 

 

School Garden Club

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Take a look at this great article about a school gardening club and some of their activities.

 

“The kids were intrigued and fascinated with the red wiggler worms turning organic waste into useable compost to be used in the gardens as fertilizer for their vegetables,” said Chris.

 

School garden club a learning experience

Worm Farming For Kids

If you are in the Los Angleles area this sounds like a fun thing to do.

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Hip to the likes and dislikes of his target audience, Tegart is hosting the alluring-sounding family workshop titled "Playing With Worms!" on Saturday. The class will explore composting and vermiculture with the hope that kids will go home and start recycling food waste.

Check it out.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2010/08/composting-class-worm-bin.html