A Few Interesting Worm Farm Facts

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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.

Amazing Facts for Worm Farm Enthusiasts

Worm Farms At School

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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.

SVSU students learn about worms and the environment

Learn About Worm Farming At Princeton

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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.”

Organic and sustainable agriculture event in Princeton

How To Get Your Worm Farm Started

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Nice video about setting up a worm farm.

If you live in an apartment and still want to compost this may be for you.

Worm composting indoors

Step By Step Worm Farm Instructions

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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. 

Worm Composting

Vermiculture Bins For Your Worm Farm

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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.

Recycling 101: a Vermiculture Bin

An Unusual Gift

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Fun blog post about a worm farm.

Worms in My Stocking?

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: 

A Great Gift Idea For Science Teachers

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What a great gift idea for a science teacher!

The gift? A worm condominium. Yup, I’m giving my kid’s teacher worms!

A Very Special Teacher Gift

Worm Farming In Your Apartment

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You need to try vermicomposting. It’s ideal for small spaces and can be done indoors, which makes it perfect for apartment dwellers.

Worms can make for great roommates

Worm Composting To Help The Environment

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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

Summer Classes For Kids

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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

Vermicomposting In Your Apartment

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You need to try vermicomposting. It’s ideal for small spaces and can be done indoors, which makes it perfect for apartment dwellers.

Worms can make for great roommates

New Use For An Old Fridge-Create A Worm Farm

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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.

Last Aussie Blog for 2010

Worm Farming Classes

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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.

RCCC adds to list of offerings in January

Another Community Uses Worm Composting

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One more community is getting involved in worm composting.

Port Moody council gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a worm composting program in 2011.

Worm composting a go in PoMo

The Role Of Earthworms In Our Environment

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Vermiculture is the process or technology of raising, reproducing and maintaining earthworms artificially.

Earthworms Roles in Biodynamic Farming

See How Students Are Helping The Environment

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Worm farms, radio stations, gardening clubs & pig buckets are just a few of the sustainability initiatives underway by pupils of St Albans School. 

The Eco-Warriors of St Albans School

Worm Farming-A Great Home-Based Business

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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

Worm Farming With Eisenia Fetida

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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

Eisenia Fetida

West Baltimore Company Add Vermiculture To It's Recycling Project

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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.

Composting takes root in West B'more

Recycling Organic Waste

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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.

Waste!

Interesting Christmas Gift Ideas-How About A Worm Farm?

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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.

Town’s unique Christmas market

"Green" Restaurant

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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.

Restaurant serves up sustainability

Can Worms Clean Up Toxic Chemicals?

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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.

What a Twist! Earthworms Could Clean Up Toxic Waste

Look At How These Students Worked To Bring Their Worm Bins Back

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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.

Tending to the Worms at Conserve School

Prisoners Learn Hands-On How To Help The Environment

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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

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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

Worm Farming-The Techniques For Managing Your Worms And Harvesting The Compost

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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. 

Mid-scale worm bin management

A Look At Worm Composting From Another Perspective

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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

Worms Help Eat Your Garbage

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Looking for a cheap, easy, and fast way to compost your everyday kitchen scraps? If so, vermicomposting is exactly what you’re looking for. 

Worms Can Help Too!

Our Current Food System vs Organic Farming

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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.

Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system