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I've been trying to find a way to regenerate some topsoil on poor land without hauling in a lot of organic materials. I'll give a bit of backstory. In 2015 my family moved into a newly built home in the

Help a Veteran This Holiday Season I'm making a very unusual post today from my normal worm farming tips and tricks type stuff. If you're involved with worm farming on Facebook, then you've probably seen

Watching YouTube or participating in vermicomposting forums you'd think worms needed their food all prepped like something you'd feed an infant. Comment after comment and video after video has people blending

One question I'm frequently asked is how many worms do I need to start a worm bin? When starting a new worm bin many of us are doing it on a budget. We usually have the bin first and want to start with

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Organic Fertilizers Are made from dead from plants and animals. Examples of organic fertilizers are: Bone Meal, Vermicompost, Manure, Kelp, Compost, and Fish Hydrolysate. Synthetic Fertilizers ​ are inorganic,

This will be a pretty short post today. I just wanted to honour a member of the worm farming community that has sadly departed. Jerry "Worm Dude" Gach was someone I never met personally, I had

Your mom told you to always told you to put on clean underwear in case you were in an accident (I never understood this because there's a good chance if you're in an accident that bad your gitch will be

It isn't often there are worm farming events worth announcing far and wide. Right now I have 2 things coming up in 2018 that you should know about. The first is the 19th annual NCSU Vermiculture Conference

Oh Shit! Facts About Composting Manure If you're corprophobic (irrational fear of poop 💩) you better skip this post- this one is where the brown stuff hits the fan! I've been around composting (and manure)

Every year I rake and gather my lawn thatch. Every year I try to vermicompost it. Every year I get in a battle with my wife and another with a swarm of fungus gnats. I really like the texture and quality

<iframe src=" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Making Worm Casting Extract After I first posted

Worms may well become one solution to environmental problems and lack of nutrition in the soil. Epigeic earthworms have the capability of converting otherwise waste products into a valuable soil amendment.

Today I'm going to review the exact air pump I use to brew compost tea for my own lawn and gardens. I brew in 55 gal batches in a homemade airlift brewer (not a vortex) and this pump does the job at a

Have you ever looked at the soil in your garden and considered it as anything more than soil? If not, you should because there is a lot more there than meets the eye. It performs many functions that you

Today I unboxed and assembled my Urban Worm Bag from Urban Worm Company. It took me less than 10 minutes to fully assemble and I'm very impressed with the strength and quality. The metal tube frame is

EBook by Quoc-Huy Nguyen Dinh This guide to composting with black soldier fly larvae is Quoc-Huy Nguyen Dinh's first eBook. He's done a remarkable job of including a couple of DIY soldier fly larvae compost

For centuries earthworms have been used as a protein rich food and a medicine to treat heart disease and pulmonary illnesses in parts of Asia. Earthworms offer unanticipated potential health benefits without