Vermicomposting

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• Adult Diapers Clog Landfills, Too

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 626
  Image via: timmmip on Flickr.com Adult diapers, or incontinence pads as they are otherwise known, amounted to less than one percent of total landfill waste just two decades ago. Today, that number is closer to 7% and climbing . These pads are typically made from plastic and other non-biodegradable products meaning ...
  1 week ago

• Feeding Compost Worms

  
  All About Worms — Authority: 124
  The best worms to use for composting are red worms. Red worm is the common name for Eisenia fetida/foetida and Lumbricus rubellus. Red worms are a type of earthworm that is also commonly used as bait for fish such as perch and sunfish. Eisenia fetida/foetida (also called red wiggler, manure worm, or brandling) is ...
  1 week ago

• Compost Worms "Recycling"

  
  Northern Exposure Gardening — Authority: 99
  Do worms eat your garbage? We find that we produce much less household garbage by recycling and composting, but recently, I tried a new paper product disposal method. I fed a Botanus catalog to my composting worms, who live in a plastic bin in our semi-heated garage. It seemed like a fitting completion of the ...
  1 week ago

• Heating Cables in Worm Beds

  
  All About Worms — Authority: 124
  If you want to continue worm growing and composting through the winter months, you might consider adding hot water pipes or heating cables to your worm beds. This will insulate the worm beds through the winter months to ensure proper digestion, ample casting production, and reproduction. According to Vermico ...
  1 week ago

• Tiger Worm

  
  All About Worms — Authority: 124
  Tiger worm is another name for red worm, red wiggler or manure worm. These worms are commonly used for composting. They produce some of species richest castings and they also produce them at a rapid rate. Tiger worms have the ability to consume their own body weight in food each day. This means that because there is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dirt Fights Climate Change Guaranteed

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 114
  The UK’s Soil Association just put out a report 5 days before Copenhagen that farming’s biggest thing is in fighting climate change — putting carbon back into the soil and earth. Organic, chemical free farms have dirt that has 20-28% more carbon (the lego brick of all life) than your burned out non-organic, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Commercial Worm Farming

  
  All About Worms — Authority: 124
  Commercial worm farming can be a lucrative business — if you’re good at marketing and if you know how to create the ideal conditions for worms to reproduce. Commercial worm farmers typically sell red worms for composting. They also sell worm castings to use as a fertilizer, if you prefer not to create your own ...
  2 weeks ago

• Growing POWER Everywhere

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 114
  FoodCycles inspiration, Will Allen of Growing Power Inc was featured on CNN in the US. Will founded Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now shares his knowledge with people from all over the country (and Canadians too, how else do you think FoodCycles got started). Growing Power is the last city farm in ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to Make a Worm Bin

  
  All About Worms — Authority: 124
  A worm bin is used for worm composting. Worm composting is the process of using worms to recycle organic material and food scraps into a useful soil amendment called “vermicompost.” Vermicompost is also called “worm compost.” When worms consume food scraps, the scraps become compost as they pass though the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Composter without a bin?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 627
  I want to compost, but dont have any good options at present. Can I just throw my organic waste into the bushes and let nature do its thing? For the last few years Ive been a reasonably responsible composter, dumping my veggie waste into my neighbours compost bin. Now Im living in a small apartment in a smallish town ...
  4 weeks ago

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