Worm Composting Bins Are Great For The Environment

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Worms make compost by taking in your garbage through their front, using a few nutrients for digestion, and then leave fantastic soil, full of nutrients, behind

 Worm Composting Bin Your Compost Treasure Chest

Find Out About Worm Composting When You Attend Farming Task Classes

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Topics include volunteer management, soil fertility, integrated pest management, tillage, weed management, greenhouse operations, composting, worm composting, diversity training and much more.

Workday Leader Class—Jan 22 to Feb 26

Worm Composting Helps You To Go Green

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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.

Go Green with Worm Composting

 

 

 

Students Learn About Composting

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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.

Quabbin students expand organic efforts

Hold The Worms At The Trash Museum

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The Trash Museum in Hartford, CT  sounds like a fun place to visit.

Anyone who was brave enough could hold the worms. 

I Love Trash!

Worm Farming For Everyone

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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.

Organic Farm Business Idea | 01. Worm Farming

Learn How Worm Compost Benefits Plants

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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. 

Here's How Worm Compost Fights Plant Disease 

Hydroponic Greenhouse At School

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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.

On a School Rooftop, Hydroponic Greens for Little Gardeners

Vermiculture Business At Your Home

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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.

Home Based Business- Vermiculture

Composting Videos

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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. 

4 Ways to Compost

Here is a funny video with the mistakes that were made while filming the 4 Ways to Compost video.

Funny Composting Bloopers

Girls Enjoy The Worm Bin

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There is no denying the fact that worms are Mother Nature’s ultimate recyclers—ingesting waste and churning out black gold.

Girls Like Worms

Another Green Office Building

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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.

Chamber goes green in new downtown office

Secrets To Healthy Plants

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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

What Do Worm Castings Look Like?

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This blog shows what worm castings look like.

If you're new to worm composting, you might be wondering what worm castings look like.

What Does Vermicast Look Like?

Learn How To Set Up Home Compost

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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

Worm Composting Workshop

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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.

BACKYARD AND WORM COMPOSTING WORKSHOP

Science Project Teaches About Decomposition

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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.

Decaying Science

Indoor Worm Farm

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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.

Worm your way into world of indoor composting

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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).

Red Worm Facts

Vermicomposting Class in Somerville, MA

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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!!!  

Upcoming Hands-on Worm Composting Workshop 

A Worm Farm System That Is Easy To Make

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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.

Rob’s DIY Vermipod

Another Happy Worm Farmer

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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

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Big Time Worm Farming

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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.

Worm Composting Becomes Big Business

Build Your Own Outdoor Worm Bin

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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.

How To Make a Vermiculture Box

Learn About Worm Farming

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Nice post about vermiculture.

The Red Wiggler worms used for vermiculture are a special variety.

As The Worm Turns

Vermiculture Class

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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. 

Vermiculture Composting

Update On The Worm Farm

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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. 

Worm composting bin update: week 3

Eco-Fair Features Worm Composting And Aquaponics

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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. 

Kaimuki Eco-Fair

Ways To A No-Dig Garden

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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.

No-dig Gardening