Look What Worms Can Do

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See how worm farms can help the environment.

Massive worm farms built on the Waikato's 4000-plus dairy farms could help stop effluent leaching into waterways, according to a Waikato horticultural consultant.

Cash bonus from worms

Some Thoughts On Vermiculture And Worm Castings

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This blog post has lots of useful information about worm farming.

Don's words on vermicomposting

Vermiculture and worm castings in the words of Don Dillon

Learn How To Start A Worm Farm

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Regardless of what you believe, worms can do wonders in your garden. They battle to air rate the ground and soil and their excretion or “castings” are a wonderful kind of garden manure.

How To Start Your Own Worm Farm

Gary Larson's New Worm Book

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Gary Larson has a new book out-it's about worms. Can't wait to read it!

 

If you love Larson, humor, and worms you’ll love this story and you can share it with your children as there is a moral to the story.

There’s A Hair In My Dirt

Worms In Flats

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If you live near Vancouver-here is a fun way to spend an hour and help the environment too.

Worms in apartments? Huh? Actually, the city has a limited number of special worm composters for use in apartments. 

Worms in flats

Worm Farming Workshops In Brisbane

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Brisbane City Council is offering all residents the opportunity to learn about composting and worm farming at free workshops during October. 

Compost and Worm Farm Workshops Come to Brisbane

Red Wiggler Worm Goes To School

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 How would you like to come face to face with a 6 foot Red Wiggler Worm? Check out the reaction of these kids. 

What happens when you mix third-and fourth-graders and mounds of dirt filled with worms? A lesson in composting, science and plenty of laughs and squeals.

Respecting Mother Earth

Vermiculture Training In Schools

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Teachers and parents of schoolchildren in Oas, Albay, took part in a seminar on composting for vegetable gardens

Vermiculture Training In bikol

Compost-Learn How Worm Farming Can Make It Happen

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Check out the schedule of workshops.

"Tonight was vermin composting, about worm composting."

It's all about the compost

Kids And Their Worms-Worm Farm For Profit

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Read about a great 4H project that kids are excited about.

The profitable part is worm poop, technically called castings. It can be separated and sold as a rich fertilizer.

Earthworm entrepreneurs

Untitled

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See what's happening at the farm.

They are very happy in their new homes and doing their thing (eating and providing us with rich soil)! The compost-worms have enough food to sustain them for 3-4 months.

Hoophouses, Worms and Lettuce Galore!

Thoughts On Composting

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There are different bin designs and even commercially made bins. We sold a recycled plastic bin this year which works well, but I really would advise someone to use fencing or salvaged bricks or blocks.

Confessions Of A Dirt Farmer

Vermiculture: Indoor Composting

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Overview of vermiculture.

Vermiculture I think is fascinating, basically, it is the process of composting kitchen waste with earthworms. We are not talking about common night crawlers, but specific varieties of worms such as red worms and red wigglers

Vermiculture: Indoor composting and organic soil improvement

Gary Kline Talks Vermiculture-Part 3

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Part 3 of Gary Kline's presentation on Vermiculture

Gary Kline Black Lake Organics Vermiculture Part 3

Gary Kline Talks Vermiculture

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Gary Kline discusses why the need for great soil is needed to grow your plants. 

Gary Kline of Black Lake Organics talks about building raised worm/plant beds.

Gary Kline Vermiculture Part 1

Gary Kline Vermiculture Part 2

Worm Compost Enriches Garden Soils

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Why should you start a worm farm? For the vermicompost that is created. Read this informative article to find out more.

 

Worm castings and worm tea can increase garden productivity anywhere from 20 percent to 200 percent, Thomsen said. “I’ve personally seen 12 tomato plants grow to a height of 12 feet and produce 200 pounds of tomatoes per bush,” he said.

Earthworms enrich garden soils by composting

Worm Farming Guide

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Here's a cool vid that shows worm bins that shows the compost in various stages.

 

Basic guide for newbies on what a worm farm is and why you'd have one.

Guide to Worm Farming   

Share The Community Garden

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There is a new communuty garden-read on.

Got a green thumb but no place to display the results? Beginning later this month, a spot will open near downtown for wanna-be gardeners without a garden.

Community garden will open soon in Morgan Hill

Set Up A Worm Farm With The Kids

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Here are a few tips for setting up a worm farm with your kids.

Most children have a fascination with worms for some reason and usually like to play with them. If your kid likes watching or playing with worms one thing you could do with them is start up a children’s vermicomposter.

Children’s Worm Farm: Tips On How To Set It Up

Worm Composting For Apartment Dwellers

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This article has a few good links about worm composting.

For all of you with the dream of composting but without access to an outdoor compost pile—fret not. With a plastic bin, some worms, and a little work, you can turn your kitchen scraps into soil with the best of them.

I live in an apartment. Can I still compost?

Fall Composting Workshop

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This looks like a good workshop. Check it out if you are in the area.

 

“Fall is a great time to start composting as you have a ready mix of dry leaves, yard and garden waste and food waste,” explains Baughen. “Combining these helps make excellent compost that can be ready for your spring garden.”

Regional district to host composting workshop

 

Setting Up A Worm Bin

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Here's a great video about getting a worm bin set up.

MAKE YOUR OWN WORM BIN :) Recycle instead of throwing out - Use your garbage to make plant fertilizer! 

 

WORM BIN ~ MAKE YOUR OWN ~ VERMICULTURE COMPOSTING

Catanduanes Farmers Begin Vermicomposting

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Look how an island in the Phillipines is changing the way they farm the soil.

 

The shredded organic waste will be placed into the vermin bed to serve as feeds for the worms which would convert them into vermicast.

 

The governor cited reports that say with decreasing input price, bio-organic fertilizers can increase farmers’ yield and profit by as much as 200 percent. 

 

DA provides Catanduanes farmers tools for organic fertilizer-making

Pastor Promotes Vermiculture

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This Pastor has found a wonderful way to sustain his ministry. Take a look.

Pastor Leo says the vermiculture business tended by his fellow pastors “was fruitful and easy.”  The livelihood program has become successful that the pastors are now thinking of convincing other ministry members for them to start their own worm fertilizer farms as well, he says.

Young pastor promotes vermiculture to his Laguna brethren

 

Prepare The Worm Feast

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If you are in the Pittsburgh, PA area, check this out. Looks like a good program.

 

Seiple conducts workshops on vermiculture, including a Sept. 9 session at the Mount Lebanon Public Library, and says that up until fourth grade, "All kids love worms. But after grade four, girls don't want anything to do with them." 

Worm Feast

Recycling In Schools

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In addition to paper recycling and composting of all food waste in the cafeteria, Bryker Woods also has vermiculture composting bins in three classrooms (“vermi” means “wormy,” but has a much lower  “eeeew”-factor), a rainwater collection system for the school’s gardens, and small recycling projects for batteries, toners and ink cartridges and candy bar wrappers.

Back to school special: The three Rs revisited

 

What a great way to teach kids about natural recycling and do something good for the earth.

Worm Composting Is Good For The Planet

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Learn how worm composting is cleaning up the trash.

 

Down to the last option, I hoped I would be able to commit to worms. Worm composting, also known as vermiculture, is not complex. I learned this at a mini-workshop at the Earth Day celebration in Forsyth Park.

 

Worm whisperer

African Farmers Attend Vermiculture Training Session

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Zbto farmers attended a 2 day session. See what they were taught.

 

The training programme, organized by district soil conservation office (DSCO) and sponsored by AgricultureTechnology Management  Agency (ATMA), was aimed to equip the farmers about vermicomposting and soil survey and testing, the district soil conservation officer (DSCO) and ATMA project director Zunheboto, Zhekheto Awomi stated in a press release.

Zbto farmers trained on vermiculture, soil testing

Vermiculture Pit

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New vermiculture pit in India. See how they are going green.

Last week, the institute started its first vermicuture pit, which will cater to 24 families and convert all their wet garbage into usable manure. Unlike traditional vermiculture pits, this one uses deep-burrowing indigenous worms, which are easier to maintain and do not emit a foul smell.

Conserving energy the IIT-B way

Green Waste Becomes Compost

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If you are in the Los Angeles area this may be of interest to you.

 

Backyard composting is a way to manage your waste at home and eliminating the amount of waste going to the landfill. 

 

Backyard Composting

Fruit Flies In Your Worm Bin?

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This article gives some tips for keeping fruit flies out of a worm bin.

 

Maintaining the worm bin is not difficult but it does attract one universal problem: Fruit flies. Fruit flies are comprised of many species of small, fast-multiplying flies under the genus Drosophila. 

 

 

How Can You Kill Fruit Flies In A Worm Bin?