Gardening members learn about seeds, fertilizing, sun and shade, chemicals and weeds; everything they need to know to successfully grow their own vegetables. Different units allow the members to have the option of exploring vegetable gardens, community gardens, container gardening, worm composting, a flower garden for butterflies, and a larger garden.Read more: http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/life/allows/6054502/story.html#ixzz1kfm4i9zM
Willi Murray shares the finer details of establishing a worm farm to keep your garden healthy!
Vermicompost may be a new word for many, but it simply means compost created by worms. Typically worms are used to digest food waste, and can be very useful in a home or municipal setting that creates a lot of potato peels, salad leftovers and apple cores. In addition, worms can be used to digest shredded paper and animal manures.The Root of it All: The benefits of worm compost
Read about two women who are going to use worms to "save the world".
When the two worm experts found each other on Twitter last October, they were mutually impressed with each other’s work: Nesbitt’s goal is to open a worm production and education centre in Ontario; Rodriguez wants to introduce vermicomposting to the slums of Guatamala so the residents can grow food in the nitrogen-rich soil produced by worms from organic waste.
Worm composting is available to residents of multi-family dwellings, but no food scrap collection program is currently offered.Read more: http://www.royalcityrecord.com/technology/Bringing+recycling+streets/5978955/story.html#ixzz1k76ucolC
Our first “Student Gardener of the Month,” awarded in November, was JJ Trancoso. Keile Finley was the December honoree for inspiring the incorporation of a worm composting bin to the garden.
It's hard to make vermiculture - not worm culture, but the production of worms - sound attractive, but Harrell does a pretty good job. In a few short years, he has become an Annelid Evangelist.Bragg: Worming his way out of ugly lawn
India is giving its coffee farmers subsidies for green technology used in coffee farming. The request for subsidies is being considered for farmers who use eco pulpers and worm compost beds so that they will have the necessary help pay for the technology. Everyone wins, as not only is this good for conserving resources, but the coffee is less chemically impacted.
Selva Negra feeds coffee pulp to California red worms and collects their waste to use as compost.
The Madison resident has a reputation for unusual hobbies. She's a competitive sailboat racer who brews beer in her kitchen — where she also practices vermiculture (composting with worms) — all the while maintaining a landscape architecture consulting business.
Know Your Madisonian: Landscape architect Kate Stalker keeps busy with unusual hobbiesRead more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/know-your-madisonian-landscape-architect-kate-stalker-keeps-busy-with/article_9d5b77c2-3bd6-11e1-8f38-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1jkV6D2AD
In 2011, the company started five vermiculture plants in nearby villages which provide sustainable employment to the villagers, either by giving them manure for their farm or providing them the means to sell the manure in the open market, with all expertise provided by L'Oréal India.
This is a good video to show how an aquaponics and vermiculture pond is set up:
Club member Marti Snyder said other presentation topics have been Japanese flower arranging, butterfly gardening, worm composting and carnivorous plants.
Chairman of the society and rainwater harvesting expert, Col (retd) SG Dalvi told DNA, “Lunkad Greenland II is a ‘green’ society. We have been recycling wet waste in vermiculture pits. Apart from having an efficient rainwater harvesting system, we are also saving up to 30% on our energy bills by switching to CFLs in all common areas. After implementing this initiative, our society will not give any garbage to PMC at all.”
New Village Charter School in Los Angeles is seeking $1,085 to set up a worm composting program on school grounds. The school says it will use waste from lunches and snacks for composting.
Shuswap in Transition has already held a number of activities and events, including workshops on worm composting, making window coverings more energy efficient, bringing Mason bees to your garden, soap making, cheese making, and making ‘green’ cleaners and personal care products for the home.
Weekly topics are: Jan. 7, holiday plant care; Jan. 14, how to prune roses; Jan. 21, time to start tomato seeds, and Jan. 28, worm composting. Along with weekly topics, additional information will be available.
If kept out of the landfill, this food waste could decompose naturally in a backyard composting bin or an indoor worm composting bin (a personal resolution) to create beautiful, rich, healthy compost, or what some call “gold for gardeners.”
Vermiculture involves buying worms and a bin, filling it with a mix of compost-ready vegetables or fruit and shredded newspaper and letting the worms break it all down.
"This material is fine, salty clay without a lot of organic matter," explains J.T. Wick, a principle with Berg Holdings overseeing the project. "We mix worm castings with it to create fertile soil."
While traveling in the North West I met Peter Paul who showed me the most amazing, and amazingly simple, idea for an outdoor composting-bin. Using the help of worms to break down food matter, and even meats, Peter shows you a couple of simple methods to making great homemade compost.
Not only that, this method creates a vibrant composting tea that gave Peter 7 ft. tall tomato plants! He also sometimes trades his "worm juice" for different items, even an iPhone (LOL)
Cheap and Simple Worm Composting on your Homestead With Marjory Wildcraft
A fast look at the worm composting bin after 2 weeks. The worms seem to have adapted very well and are active and eating the food scraps. I will be adding what I call a "pulp burrito" for the worms to munch on...it consists of fiber pulp from my juicer that I wrap in a few layers of newspaper and freeze. I add this frozen worm pulp burrito to the bottom part of the bin and cover with bedding. Being frozen, the food should not attract the fruit flies and it being that it is pulp and already broken down, the worms can go through it faster & eaiser. I'll try and post another update in a few more weeks. Thanks for watching!
Feeding the worms up a treat as we don't think the Mangels will flower in our climate... Most impressed with their processing of the Horse manure they were given about 2 months ago...
"Is 8 days after the big feed so I thought I would give you a look as I forgot to take all the photos to post on the blog..."
This is the 4th worm i helped hatching out of its cocoon. I suspect there were more worms hatched before i noticed the movements in the cocoon. So it's probable that the cocoon gave rise to more than 4 baby worms
We put only dry leaves, fruit peelings and eggshells into our drum composter.Yet when we open the drum to dump the compost, it is loaded with worms.We are completely perplexed as to where and how these worms find their way into the composter.Some are large and some are babies.
"Stay busy with fun projects.
I know some people who get the so-called winter blues because all the things they love to do involve being outside in the summer—so they end up feeling incredibly bored all winter, claiming there’s “nothing to do.” I say hogwash. Winter is a fantastic time to tackle cool, new projects. Whether you want to take on a big project like building an earth oven or try something a little smaller like setting up an indoor worm composting bin, sending handwritten letters to old friends, or knitting a hat, I bet you can find several activities that you’ll truly enjoy."
If your town doesn’t have a compost pick-up program, check with your local municipality to see if they provide bins or classes to help residents compost on their own. If you have some outdoor space you can separate out all your scraps (minus meats and citrus) and throw them in a compost bin. Worm composting - also known as vermicomposting – is great for smaller spaces and is an easy way to speed up the compost process, producing a rich fertilizer for your plants or garden. It may seem gross at first but I can assure you, those little guys work hard and your plants will love you for it. And if the whole process just seems like too much for you, there are businesses like Compost Cab that will collect the compost for you for a small fee.
She will offer advice on how to compost household garbage and will briefly cover vermin composting (worm composting), as well.
