Boys and Girls Club Members Become Worm Farmers

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"Some people raise sheep, some people raise cattle, you guys are going to be worm farmers!" Carol Blair told a group of gathered children aged six to sixteen.

Waynesboro's Project GROWS shows kids how to compost snacks using worms

Project GROWS Expecting Worms For Composting

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You may have read the recent article about a worm composting program we started at the Boys and Girls Club. We expect the offspring of these worms to join a composting program at the community farm turning vegetable waste into organic matter that enriches the soil. The initial produce will go to the kids working at the community farm and their families.

Project GROWS getting big boost from community

Worm Farming Is One Way For College To Compost Food Waste

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In recent years, the college has sent fruit and vegetable waste from preparing meals at Stevenson -- melon rinds and carrot tops, for example -- to the college's George Jones Memorial Farm. The farm receives about 200 pounds a week and turns that waste into fertilizer through its worm composting program.

Oberlin College pulper turns food scraps into compost

Environmentally Friendly School Includes Worm Farms

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"Around the building we're putting in worm farms, vegetable plots and compost bins to complement the internal facility."

From shanty to a hint of luxury

 

Eskdale School Finalist In Gardener Of The Year Awards

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"We're semi-rural, so a lot of [the pupils] come from lifestyle blocks and they've starting making worm farms at home. It's great to see them getting so involved."

Green thumbs bloom before judges

Auckland Community Gardens

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Like at other community gardens, there are beehives, worm farms and compost bins. Volcanic stone walls look ancient but are newly laid for communal beds.

Down to earth: Community gardens around the city

Enviro Awards Given To Schools

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At Waimataitai, pupils have reduced their waste through litter-less lunches, worm farms and recycling.

Schools win Enviro awards

 

2011 Environment Action Awards

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Camberley Kindergarten - successful and imaginative development of a vegetable and fruit garden to benefit the health and knowledge of children and their families, demonstrating sustainable practices such as composting and worm farms.

Environment Action Awards 2011

Composting And Vermiculture Workshop

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The average person throws away 4.5 pounds of trash every day, according to officials with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension, and for those who would like to reduce that amount, there will be a workshop on Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. to explain how to do just that.

Composting and vermiculture workshop to show ways people can reduce waste

Read more: Mount Airy News - Composting and vermiculture workshop to show ways people can reduce waste 

Ideas For Setting Up The Worm Bin

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I brought home a cottage cheese size container full of red wiggler worms (Eisenia foetida), the best ones for composting because they stay near the surface and are said to eat about half their weight in garbage every day.

What to do with Thanksgiving Leftovers? The Worms Will Help Out

Vermiculture In Cuba

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"From now on I'm going to use vermiculture (composting using earthworms), which does not require a major investment, and I know that many people will see what I'm doing and want to replicate it," she said. 

Cuba Shares Its Experiences in Agroecology 

Compost Snack Leftovers With Worms

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The fuel for the organic produce, nutrient-rich compost, will come from the Waynesboro Boys and Girls Club, where uneaten snack and dinner items will be composted at the club by 10,000 worms.

Waynesboro's Project GROWS shows kids how to compost snacks using worms

Vermicompost Your Kitchen Waste

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Langelo said she started with a couple pounds of worms from a worm farm when she first began her vermicompost bin. “Two pounds of worms can recycle a pound of food waste in 24 hours,” she said. “Just add the worms to the top of the prepared bin and they will make their way into the bedding.”

Vermicompost the key to getting rid of kitchen waste

Recycling Week Prizes Include Worm Farms

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Thanks to Goulburn Produce and Tumbleweed, two compost bins and two worm farms have been donated as prizes for the most enthusiastic schools or pre-school organisations in joining in National Recycling Week activities and the colouring- in competition.

Schools go green for recycling week

Southern Tasmanian Students Make A Worm Farm

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"They are learning about gardens, compost and worm farms.

Piper squeals in fascination as a pink worm squirms in her fingers.

She is in prep and is interested in making healthy soil with a worm farm."

Squirming for sustainability

Spectacular Garden Includes Worm Farms

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The Wintles have drought-proofed their garden with six tanks giving 107,000 litres of water and use seaweed fertilisers, mulching, worm farms, composting and native beehives to keep it healthy and productive.

Spectacular garden is couple's labour of love

Vermiculture Allows The Worms To Do The Dirty Work

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The composting worms most often used are Eisenia foetida, commonly known as red wigglers, and can be purchased at garden centers, bait shops or from suppliers on the Internet. This type of worm has adapted to living in decaying organic material, and it thrives in rotting vegetation.

Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/11/09/1828017/vermiculture-let-the-worms-do.html#ixzz1dgp0wDCG

Vermiculture: Let the worms do the dirty work

Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/11/09/1828017/vermiculture-let-the-worms-do.html#ixzz1dgonYCoX

Master Gardener Answers Worm Composting Questions

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Composting with worms is a great way to recycle kitchen scraps, even year-round, when outdoor piles are frozen. One pound of red wigglers (not earthworms or nightcrawlers) eat a pound of scraps per week, and if they’re happy, they’ll have babies and you can compost even more.

ASK A MASTER GARDENER

Worm Composting In An Urban Setting

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She is especially interested in worm composting to create urban scale systems that produce clean soil and healthy food. “I get to live into my values,” says Nancy. “I feel very blessed.”

Taking community building to a new level

Oregon State U Has Vermiculture Booklet Available

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LEARN VERMICOMPOSTING: Oregon State University Extension Service has come out with booklet on worm composting or vermiculture that tells you how to do it and gives instructions on how to make a worm bin. Download the free publication at the OSU Extension Service website. 

 

Gardening news and notes: Giant kale; worm composting

 

Vermiculture May Be The Answer To Managing Waste

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The vermicompost is a simple process through which various species of worms are used to enhance the decomposing and recycling cycle of organic matter to produce nutritient-rich compost that works as an excellent fertilizer, soil conditioner, and a natural pesticide. The chief objective is to compost organic wastes not for the disposal of solid organic wastes but also to produce superior quality manure to feed our nutrient/organic matter hungry soils.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/314076#ixzz1d9wp6L6F

Managing Waste: Goa Shows a Profitable Way 

Worm Bin Uses Shredded Cardboard Bedding

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This is my method for worm composting, based on eight years of experimenting.

Worm Bin - Shredded Cardboard Bedding

Airport To Include Worm Farming

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In the giant worm bin - the technical term for it is "continuous flow vermicomposting system" - the worms will eat their fill, leaving behind worm "castings," as the crawlers' excretions are politely known.

Worms to turn out compost at airport's $1.1M recycling center

Worm-Based Composting

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A worm factory is a multi-tray system that can be adjusted as needed. The bottom tray collects the worm castings that have broken down the household waste into organic soil. It can be emptied monthly as the worms consume the compost.

Of worms and compost

Program Loans Worm Bins To Schools

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This looks like a great program and a wonderful idea to get into the schools:

Earth Matters is excited to offer a new and exciting composting education program to Nelson schools with their Worm Bin Library! Teachers in Nelson and area can sign out a worm bin, ready with worms and an educational presentation by a local composting educator to use in their classrooms. Students can have a hands-on experience with worm composting, learn how it reduces our carbon footprint, and see how it transforms food scraps into healthy soil.

Worm bins ready for loan to schools

Green Bus With Worm Composting Bin

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Inside, we took out most of the seats, because the staff sleeps and lives on it while they’re traveling. We added an indoor classroom, with a mini kitchen and worm composting. We carry around a solar oven and a bike that generates energy and makes light bulbs light up, and set those up as different educational stations when we visit places.

New Brand, But Still Green

Green Bin Program Features Red Worms

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Wilson Insurance has made it to gold medal status by reducing office waste by more than 25 per cent by implementing a recycling program in both of its Fredericton offices. It has also started a green bin program with the use of an army of red worms to aid in the compost process. People are so intrigued with the workings of red-worm composting that staff has already had to add more bins to accommodate all of the organic waste.

Green Shops awards presented

Master Composter Class Includes Worm Composting

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Master composter training includes workshops on the art and science of basic and worm composting, field trips, certification and all training materials. Training enhances the skills of community leaders, activists, educators, environmentalists, gardeners and recyclers, according to organizers.

Cupertino shorts: City seeks applicants for commissions, committees

Composting Tips Including Worm Farming

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Gardeners often refer to compost as "black gold" because it's so good at enriching and improving the soil. But even if you aren't a gardener, compost can boost your lawn, trees and shrubs. "The healthier and richer the soil, the better all plants will do," Hundley says.

7 Tips for Easy Composting

Worm Farms Help With Zero Waste Goal

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 “We’re using a natural process to divert food from landfills and prevent global warming. We like to think that we’re helping solve the food waste problem.”

Worms: The Way to a Zero Waste Future?