Reuse and Recycle at its best! My building I harvest all my worms in, and the building I make all my worm bins in, Is made from 95% left over and reused materials and it looks great TOO!
My building is 16′ wide X 24′ long, the doors and windows were either given to me by someone, or they were bought at yard sales by us.
3 years ago we completely gave our house new siding,windows,doors,electical,etc 75% of the siding was left over from doing the house, so I only had to buy 200 sq ft of siding to complete the building.
I also needed to buy the cement mix to mix my cement. I can’t remember but I think I got 12 bags of cement. When I got to the electical, I was able to get a (breaker)panel box from my brother-in-law, the one that was in our house was too big, I only needed a small one for a building of this size.
For safety reasons I did not want to save money when it came to wiring the building, I bought the wire and the fixtures.
Well there you have it!! The cost of this building to me so far, I still need to do work inside,is $500.00.
WOW! Yes $500.00 dollars, The point I am getting to is (REDUCE,REUSE,,RECYCLE) And look at the great stuff you can do with Recycled Materials.
Till next Time….
Jeff
Written by Jeff on August 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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In this post you will see some of my worm beds, and how I harvest my worm castings.
Here is one of my Worm Beds. It is 8′ long 3′ wide, This bed is used for Worm Castings production for the most part. These beds are harvested and rebedded on a monthly bases. The bedding is pre-composted, These beds are housed with Red Wigglers and European Nightcrawlers.
I take the used up Vermicompost and screen it through a 1/4″ screen, which seperates all the larger worms from the small worms and worm cocoons(worm eggs)and the worm castings.At this point the larger worms go back into this same bed to produce Worm Castings and alot of egg cocoons to be harvested again in another month.
In this pic you can see the Vermicompost on the floor after being screened through the 1/4″ screen.
The pile on the floor, as I said before is all the little worms, egg cocoons, and the Worm Castings that were in the 18 cubic ft worm bed.
At this point this pile of vermicompost is left to sit for a week or two before it is moved out to the Old Fanning Mill, to produce the final product (Worm Castings)
Here is the link to my Harvesting video.Over at my Worm Farmer friends website www.redwormcomposting.com.Harvesting Worm Castings
Here is a picture of my Worm Castings after they go through the old Fanning Mill, Bagged up and ready to be sold to you people to make all your plants grow like never before. Check out my PROMO ITEMS at the top of the page.
Written by Jeff on July 21st, 2008 with 2 comments.
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The Slogan (it’s a EUROPEAN you’re A SEEIN’ That’s catchin’ all the FISH!!) Was created by my wife Lorie. In an effort to bring attention to this very NEW to North America, Fishing and composting worm The European Nightcrawler. (Eisenia hortensis)
Mass of European Nightcrawlers(Eisenia hortensis)
I have been raising The European Nightcrawler for 4 years now, In the past 2 years I have raised two breeds, The European N/C and the Red Wiggler (Eisenia fetida).These two breeds mixed in large composting beds work very well at producing quality worm castings, My beds are 8″-12″ in depth, the reds are the top feeders. example ( the reds are composting in the top 3-4″. The Euros are composting from 4-12″ levels of my composting worm beds) Both these breeds work very well on their own as well, at all levels of the composting bins. I have also been told by a number of people, that the Reds will take over the beds( out number the Euros ) over time, I have not seen this happen as of yet, This past spring I would have said those people were right, I had greater #’s of reds and less Euros, In the last month or two now, the euros have came back in big #’s and there is now more euros in the beds then reds. Yes readers now you will think I have just been picking out the reds, this is not the fact. These beds are for producing Worm Castings, I harvest the worm casting and I return the stock of worms from each bed back to their same beds,To compost the new bedding I have just added.
As far as taking care of each breed, All I had read about the euros, and their want to crawl, out of the beds, bins etc. Is wrong in my opinion, I have had alot more problems with the Red Wigglers crawling, then I have ever had with the European N/C. On another note: It is hard to kill Euros, and in the last few years I have found my self a couple of times trying to keep the reds alive. example, The Euros take change in their environments better then the Reds do. I am not sure why the Red Wigglers are still known as the best composting worm in North America. I am sure in the not too far future we will see the European N/C gain alot of ground in the composting field. There is also Millions of Fisherman out there that think the Reds are just not big enough to use for fishing. Where as the European N/C can grow to 5″ very easily, in a composting bin, and close to the size of the Canadian N/C if the Euro has space to grow.
These worms produce quality WORM CASTINGS
Please Check out the Promo I have going at the moment on these quality Worm Castings.
The Friendly Worm Guy
Written by Jeff on July 18th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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All our products are GREEN!! Here is a picture and a little about each product that we handle here at the Friendly Worm Guy
This nice 8 oz cardboard cup is what I use as a worm cup, or (container) I sell all my bait worms in this nice paper cup, If the fisherman leaves the container at their fishing spot, It would be all composted by the following fishing season. These cups are made for the food service. it is a hot soup cup. It only took me about 6 months to find this great little cup. I put my worms into it for the fisherman and the cup is great for the Environment TOO!!
These great little muslin/cotton bags are used by us at FWG and by great gardeners.
We fill these little bags with worm castings and we drop the bag into a watering can or pail of water, to make liquid organic fertilizer,CALLED WORM TEA!! to add to your plants in regular watering times.
Watch your plants grow like never before!
These large muslin/cotton bags are used by us at FWG as very large worm tea bags.they work great in a 45 gallon container. But for the most part here, We use them to ship our worms out in.
A pound of worms along with a pound of bedding goes in this bag wonderful, and the worms can breathe through them great.
If you compost this bag after you get your worms,it is composted in a matter of weeks.(not years)
OH!! we can’t forget about my great little tool I made to bag my 1 pound bags of worm castings, this very handy 2 litre pop bottle with a soup can typed to it, makes bagging my worm castings an ease!! isn’t this tool recycling at its best!! haha.
1 more thing! we can’t forget about the way that I ship my worms and products across Canada! every box I use for shipping is recycled, from local stores.
Jeff The Friendly Worm Guy
Written by Jeff on May 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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WOW! I sure wish I hadn’t fertilized my huge 400′ X 100′ front yard, with Worm Castings, now that I am waiting for parts to repair my riding lawnmower.
If anyone that is reading this post is looking for a Great Organic fertilizer, too make there lawns grow like never before!! There will be NO greener lawn on the block!!
There is places in the lawn that haven’t been fertilized with Worm Castings for the past 3 years, and the grass is still growing great in those areas. These Worm Castings last for years!!
Written by Jeff on May 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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