Worm Farming Articles
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Affordable Orlando Organic Fertilizers, Healthy Soil for Vegetables & Crops
The success of a garden or crops is directly affected by the health of the soil ecosystem, creating a bounty of delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers. For true sustainability, maximum nutrition and amazing flavor, organic fertilizers and black worm castings are the the answer. How to Create Healthy Soil? Don’t use synthetic fertilizer or harmful chemicals. “When you put ...
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A Commercial Case Study from A & A Worm Farm Waste System
We were contacted by the business development manager of a large production plant that employed hundreds of employees onsite. She was looking for practical and cost efficient ways to implement the company’s new environmental policy and to improve the company’s reputation as a responsible corporate citizen. She had identified waste management as a potential area for improvement. After ...
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Improved performance of red worms (Eisenia andrei) in compost of cattle manure rinsed with water
To achieve satisfactory results with vermiculture, it is important to know how many times to rinse cattle manure to eliminate salts. Treatments under evaluation were 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 rinses in a tap water: manure ratio of 1 : 1 (v/v). Electrical Conductivity (EC), Biomass of Worms (BW) and Number of Cocoons (NC) were evaluated. The EC ranged from 2.57 to 0.5 dS·m−1 for T0 and T4. ...
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Potential of Eisenia fetida for vermicomposting of garden trimmings spiked with cow dung
The garden residues and trimmings were vermicomposted in order to mitigate environmental problems caused by them. The results of experiments indicated that the addition of Garden Trimmings (GT) up to 30% with cow dung (CD) produced good quality vermicompost in terms of increased NPK status as well as decrease in C : N and C : P ratio. A comparison of the decomposition of GT + CD in ...
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The wonder of red wiggler worms
Worms are going to play an ever-increasing role in waste management and soil production. Red wiggler worms convert food scraps and paper into nature's finest fertilizer. As nature's original recyclers, they consume approximately half their weight daily!Many municipalities have introduced organic collection programs, and backyard composting is widespread. Vermicomposting is a great alternative for ...
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Relative efficacy of two methods of vermicomposting for bio-degradation of organic wastes
Two methods of vermicomposting were used for the bio-degradation of organic wastes, viz., the pit method and the heap method. The efficacy of these two methods was compared under field conditions over three seasons (winter, summer and rainy) by using one of the most promising composting worm species, Eisenia fetida. One hundred adult earthworms (Eisenia fetida) were released in each pit and heap. ...
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