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November 2009

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SAVE!SAVE!SAVE! $10.00 OFF SALE! STILL ON!!!!

WOW! SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! $10.00 OFF a pound of worms or $10.00 off the complete WORM BIN KIT. These PRICES are most likely the best in Canada at the moment, So get your orders in.
The Prices below are the SALE PRICES $10.00 already removed!!

EUROPEAN NIGHTCRAWLERS
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Yes the red wiggler is the most common worm for composting in North America….But the European Nightcrawlers are starting to break walls down in the composting business, The Euro is on its way to being as good or better then the Red Wiggler. The Euro is also twice the size of the Red Wiggler, So that makes the Euro a Very good fishing worm as well.

Half Pound of European Nightcrawlers
$25.00 plus $10.00 shipping anywhere in Canada. Total $35.00


1 pound of European Nightcrawlers.
$45.00 plus $10.00 shipping anywhere in Canada. Total $55.00




RED WIGGLERS
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The most common worm used for home worm composting. They are very easy to raise, have great appetites, and breed readily in captivity. They are thought to be more effective at processing wastes than European Nightcrawlers.. But like I said above, I feel pound for pound both breeds are as good as each other at composting in a home composter.

Half Pound of Red Wigglers
$20.00 plus $10.00 shipping anywhere in Canada. Total $30.00


1 pound of Red Wigglers
$35.00 plus $10.00 shipping anywhere in Canada Total $45.00




Complete Worm Bin Kits



Great for anyone who wants the ‘full package’, our worm bin kits come complete with a 40L bin, worms, bedding (shredded recycled paper), spray bottle, and how-to instructions for maintaining the system. The worms will be in the bin inside a cloth bag, you just make bedding damp,add some food waste then open the bag of worms and add the worms.
1/2 lb of Worms + 62L bin – $49.99 CAD plus $20.00 shipping.Total $69.99


New To Friendly Worm Guy Products
This charming children’s book by Larraine Roulston is written to teach children all about wormeries and composting.
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Pee Wee’s Great Adventure: A Guide to Vermicomposting has Pee Wee describing an amazing adventure from a classroom worm bin to a backyard composter. Instructions are included on how to care for worms and harvest their castings.

This book is printed on 100% recycled paper, is acid free, processed chlorine free and is printed using vegetable based inks.

Retails For $7.50 plus $3.00 shipping anywhere in Canada TOTAL $10.50



New PRODUCT.. The Worm inn

Green worm innBrown worm innCamo worm inn

I’ve got Red, Green, Camo, Brown, Purple available

stand and worm inn The Worm Inn facilitates “Continuous flow” vermicomposting

The Worm Inn is designed to be suspended by a shelving unit, a sturdy cross-bar, or a laundry hamper stand,

After designating a place for the Worm Inn, such as a basement, a utility closet, a storage area, a garage, or a classroom, the bag is ready to be filled.

The only things required for set-up are: The Worm Inn

Bedding
This includes cardboard items such as egg carton containers, paper towel inserts and newspapers – avoid glossy inserts

Food scraps
It’s best to let the food scraps sit for a few days so the microbial waste can develop, as this is what the worms actually feed on
Amount – 1-2 lbs of food waste per week is a good amount to sustain a pound of worms

Worms
1-3 pounds of Red Wigglers

To fill the Worm Inn:

some bedding is placed in the bottom to absorb moisture
then a layer of food scraps
followed by the worms
then the rest of the food scraps
finally, a thick layer of more bedding
the whole system is sprayed down with water as the contents need to remain cool and damp

As the system settles, the worms move upwards, digesting the microbial waste of the food, which results in the castings, a rich fertilizer. These castings (or vermicast) are left below as the worms constantly move upward toward more food.


$69.99 plus $10 Shipping, This is a USA product, that ships to Canada and The USA
I’ve got Red, Green, Camo, Brown, Purple available
On check out.. make sure you tell me what colour you would like.Thanks Jeff

Written by Jeff on November 12th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Worms,Worms,Worms.. I have Worms

Save!Save! Sale on Now.

If you are a regular here at Friendly Worm Guy, You will see I have made my Products page very easy to read and order off of.
I now have European Nightcrawlers For Sale in 1/2 pound and 1 pound orders, and the Red wigglers in 1/2 pound orders.

Also just in time for XMAS I have worm bins For Sale as well, You can order the bin with European Nightcrawlers or the Red Wigglers for the same price. $59.99 plus shipping to anywhere here in Canada.

Here is the link to my Products page. Click on Products, and it will bring you to it.

Written by Jeff on November 6th, 2009 with no comments.
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Stories from the Past

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The older farmers in my area sure gave me some funny looks when I started asking them If they had an Old Fanning Mill hanging around their farms. “What in the world would I want a thing like that for”? . They had not used them since the 1950’s. I heard the story from each, about cranking those old things all day, just to clean that grain so they could plant that years crop. Those machines were hard work, what are you going to do with something like that.

I told them, I was going to try and harvest worm castings with one. I had not even seen one before, but had only heard of them. After harvesting all my worm casting by this point by hand, with a little 1/8″ screen all night to get ready for a garden show the following day, I was ready to try anything.

The Orange one on the left came from the farmer next to me, It was made between 1913-1915, by the Young Brothers of Almonte Ontario,Yes that makes this machine about 95 years old. This unit is the first one I got, it is still operated with the hand crank on the side of the machine.

The red one on the right is one I got at a farm sale, the farmer had sold his farm. When I went and looked at it I was very happy to see what I saw. Someone had put an electic motor on it.
Even though the orange one had a crank on it,and made harvesting the castings much easier. If my hands could be free to handle all the used up bedding I was putting through this machine, I could make alot more finished worm castings in a shorter time. After a few adjustments it works great.

I have made a video of the red one in action! Harvesting Worm Castings

Written by Jeff on November 4th, 2009 with no comments.
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