The Kids Are Excited To Build A Worm Farm

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This blog post shows the kids getting involved in setting up the worm farm.

Last night I read about a farming family and one of the many things they do to promote soil health is vermicomposting.

Worm houses

Students Are Awarded Money For Their Green Ideas

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Financing these 5 ideas is a great idea.

installation of vermiculture bins at a Massell Quad residence hall floor to reduce waste and pilot a Green Living hall, proposed by Cecilia Watkins '11.

Five student ideas to green the campus get funding

The Wonders Of Red Wiggler Worm Composting

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One of the most popular worms that are often used in composting are commonly called Red Wigglers (Latin name Eisenia fetida). These are (relatively) small but powerful worms that can consume large amounts of waste into soil, and can live in places where other types of worms cannot. 

The Wonders of Worm Composting

A Worm Farm Set Up By Schools And Markets

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What a great idea! Having schools and markets working together to compost their scraps in a worm farm.

The markets are particularly proud of a worm farm (vermiculture system) run in conjunction with Eumundi State School. All compostable waste generated by the market is processed by the worm farm (8 commercial size bins and many thousands of worms). The by-products (organic fertiliser and castings) are then sold by the school and at the markets.

Eumundi Markets and House With No Steps to unveil new green shopping bag

Composting With Red Wiggler Worms

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This time of year, outdoor compost piles, a rich source of nutrients for all those seasonal garden plots, are buried under piles of snow. But some locals are using this time of year to make their own rich compost indoors. Vermicomposting, or using worms for composting, is gaining popularity here in the Twin Cities.

 

Minnesota winter white goes green with red worm composting

 

 

Composting With Red Wiggler Worms

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This time of year, outdoor compost piles, a rich source of nutrients for all those seasonal garden plots, are buried under piles of snow. But some locals are using this time of year to make their own rich compost indoors. Vermicomposting, or using worms for composting, is gaining popularity here in the Twin Cities.

Minnesota winter white goes green with red worm composting

Vermiculture And Other Composting Techniques

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The last section of class was devoted to vermiculture and various types of worm bins.  Red Wigglers,Eisenia foetida, are our BFFs for worm bins. 

Edible Garden Maestro John Lyons Talks Composting and Vermiculture at Arboretum

Composting With Worms

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Finding a source of rich organic fertilizer for your plants and garden is never easy, especially for urban gardeners. Using worms to compost your kitchen scraps is an easy way to provide a steady stream of "black gold" to help feed your plants and make your garden thrive.

Locavore: Worms find their way in Brookline

Using Red Wiggler Worms To Compost Your Garbage

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Red wiggler worms are capable of digesting most food scraps and other garbage produced in the average home. In fact it is estimated that 67% percent of all garbage sent to landfills could be composted by worms. This is know as composting.

Vermicomposting made easy; Using red wigglers to reduce food waste

Worm Compost Is Essential For Organic Gardeners

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This article explains why worm composting is a great way for organic gardeners to keep insects at bay

Worm compost adds vital nutrients to the soil and builds plants' resistence to insects and diseases, Stoner said.

Plant A Garden; Pests Will Follow

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Create Your Own Worm Composting System

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To compost with worms indoors, all you need are a bin, a drill, bricks, a tray, newspaper and worms.

How To Make Your Own Worm Composing Bin System

Students Study Vermiculture And Vermicomposing

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Students will be doing a research paper on vermiculture and vermicomposting.

About 2,350 years ago Aristotle has said, “Earthworms are intestines of the earth.” Only in the twentieth century has the truth in this statement been verified and found correct.

Vermiculture and Vermicomposting

Why Vermiculture Is A Great Activity For Organic Gardeners

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Maybe you’ve never heard the term vermiculture, if so don’t feel bad, many experienced gardeners are unfamiliar with this organic practice. I think vermiculture is fascinating; simply put it’s the process of composting kitchen waste with earthworms.

Vermiculture: Indoor Composting And Organic Soil Improvement

Recycle Food Waste

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Another recycling idea to get rid of all food scraps.

But I have a good friend who lives in Walnut Creek, and thus is able participate in the Walnut Creek Food Scrap Recycling program. Now she can put most of her food scraps into her green yard-waste recycling cart, which is collected each week. OK, now I'm jealous. What could be simpler than that? And she gets to recycle a lot more types of food scraps, including citrus.

Reducing Waste: Even if you compost, WC has scraps recycling

Worm Bins Help Out At School

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More and more schools see the benefit of worm composting to recycle their food waste.

Worm composting, according to the agency's recycling and education director, Mary Allen, "demonstrates the cycle of recycling because the food scraps are kept out of the garbage and converted into a product good for the garden."

Wilmette school gets worm bin

Worm Composting To Give Your Seedlings A Good Start

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More information on worm composting.

A compost bin can be started at any time of the year, but a ready to go batch in the spring is ideal. 

If You Feed Them, They Will Come

Vermicomposting With Red Wiggler Worms

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This is a good summary of composting with red wiggler worms.

One of natures most underrated workers are the eisenia fetida or red wiggler worms.

Vermicomposting Systems – Fast Composting On A Shoestring Budget

Workshops For Master Gardeners

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Here is some information on Master Gardener Workshops.

These workshops demonstrate the basics of the hot compost method and other ways to convert your garden waste to a valuable soil amendment. The program includes a short segment on worm composting, but for more information, including all the details you need to do it at home, we will also conduct two workshops specifically on worm composting.

Master Gardeners-Workshops for 2011

Philippine Farmers Use Vermicompost

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This is an informative article about how worm farming is helping farmers in the Philippines

In this western Pangasinan town, the local government has invested in the “lowly worm” to revitalize farmlands rendered almost unproductive because of excessive chemical fertilizer use.

Look, we have dirty money 

What's The Difference Between Worm Tea And Worm Leachate?

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This article explains the difference between worm tea and worm leachate.

Now, never mistake the run-off from the worm composter as worm tea. Remember that it’s the leachate that drips out of the worm composting bin.

Tea Is Different From Worm Leachate

Commercial Composting Experiment

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Nice experiment in recycling by a restaurant.

One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide program, recycling its food waste into reusable garden compost—the owner explains why.

Commercial Composting

Re-Cap Of Eco-Sabbath Experiment

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One of the activities that is suggested is to reflect upon the past No Impact Week. Consider what worked well, what was particularly difficult, and what could be permanently changed. 

No Impact Week Experiment (Day 8) - Eco-Sabbath

Hotels Use Vermiculture To Recycle Waste

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Read this article to see how hotels are composting waste. 

“Effective disposal or diversion of food scraps and other organic materials results in reducing the size of a hotel’s dumpsters. It also lengthens the time between waste pick-ups. And this is how one can considerably reduce garbage management and disposal costs,” explains Elsie Gabriel, founder president of Young Environmentalists Programme Trust.

Worms help Powai hotels dispose of waste

New Homes May Include Worm Farms

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"The other criteria is opportunities for organic waste recycling onsite in your garden, so it's things like composting and worm farms."

A garden's allure in creating a sustainable home

Worm Composting Classes

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The Thompson-Nicola Regional District is offering free worm composting workshops for groups of 10 and for anyone who wants to know how to use the slithery friends to help with waste management.

Free composting workshops offered

Worm Composting At The Synagogue

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Looks like this could be an interesting event.

Sunday's program will include talks about starting a community garden, making marmalade, sourcing and brewing sustainable coffee, beekeeping, cheesemaking, worm composting, organic gardening and the link between social justice and food justice.

Sustainable food weekend to be held at Kenwood synagogue

Winter Compost Making Using A Worm Farm

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What if you could create rich compost inside the house without the wind-rain-sleet-or-snow trek to the backyard pile? You can with vermiculture. Vermiculture aka worm composting is the latest in sustainable gardening practices. In addition it’s a fun project for adults or kids and you can do it conveniently year round.

Worm Boxes for Winter Compost Making

 

How A Worm Farm Is Started

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Nice overview of setting up a worm farm.

Today's project is a vermiculture worm bin. I've been wanting to raise worms for a while, mainly for fishing but also for the great soil they produce from kitchen fruit/veggie scraps.

Make a Worm Composter

An Updated Worm Farm

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This worm bin was a great gift for someone who had a small worm farm.

This is a great example of something we probably would never have splurged on for ourselves, but having gotten it as a gift, we're excited to improve on our formerly primitive worm system. 

Luxe Vermiculture

Worm Farming-Step-By-Step Guide

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Good post to help you get started with your worm farm.

A couple of my ‘girls’ agreed to woman-up and try worm composting if I could give them an easy step-by-step guide.  Ya got it, chicks.

Getting Down with Worms

Aerobic Composting

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Here are a few tips for aerobic composting.

This article will cover aerobic composting, but should you have any questions about anaerobic or vermiculture composting, contact your farm outreach worker.

Composting enriches soil, nourishes plants

Why Bother Trying To Compost?

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Whether you want to have your worm compost indoors or outdoors, it does not really matter. You can have them on either or on both areas. The good thing is that you won’t even have to sweat around too much with your worm compost. They are relatively easy to transport and are non-complaining workers that will till your compost day in and day out, for relatively no charge. You only have to feed them to keep them in top condition. 

Composting – Is It Just A Load Of Rubbish?