Part II, My First Worm Stories. From 4 years ago

by the Friendly Worm Guy
Jeff Sonnenburg

OK. A week has not past since I posted the first part of the story, Remember these are the very same as they appeared in the weekly news paper. Enjoy…. Jeff

Well, a week ago I told you we could keep a lot of organic waste out of our landfill sites with the little composting bins in our homes. Lets say there were 1700 homes in our community, and half the homes had a bin with worms eating 5 pounds of table scraps , etc per week.
850 homes X 5 pounds per week =4250 lbs per week,then you X that by 52 weeks, for a grand total of 221,000 lbs of garbage that stayed out of the landfill in just one year.(Stay away from meats and dairy products, they make ODORS if not eaten fast enough).The bin also gives us 110,500 pounds of Casting that went on indoor, outdoor plants, flowers, lawns, trees and shrubs in one year..
The fact that earthworm castings are created by nature for the purpose of promoting plant growth, why do we need chemical sprays for our plants and trees when there is worm castings and worm tea. This great fertilizer is all made by those tiny little worms.
I once read that earthworms were responsible for bring 25,000 lbs of castings to surface on 1 acre of land per year.That was in a warm weather climate of course, but never the less, isn’t that incredible!!!Worm castings can be mixed 1 part castings and 3 parts of potting soil.
Worm Tea is the liquid at the bottom of the composting bin, or by taking worm castings and soaking it in chlorine free water overnight.Worm Tea is the best all natural liquid plant food available and has NO ODOR.
Some good facts about worm tea: the microbes within the worm tea turn organic matter into humus. This humus stores energy for later use, a natural fertilizer.When using as a fertilizer, the worm tea should by mixed 1 part worm tea to 50 parts water. Worm tea directly applied to a compost pile will speed up its ability to break down plant material into compost. This in return forming more humus witch can be used as a fertilizer.
Hope you enjoyed this article about worm facts, and last weeks article about the new worm the European Nightcrawler…

Written by Jeff on March 1st, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Part I, My First Worm Farming Stories From 4 years ago

Here is my worm story..I wrote these stories about my starting worm farming for a local news paper, So remember these are from a few years ago, I know alot more these days.. HaHa These stories are the very same as they appeared in the paper, Have fun reading!!!

These Stories are GREAT for the Beginner. This is from when I was really just getting started and these basic tips were so Interesting to me, There was alot of WOW a worm can do that!!
Like everything, you forget how Amazing Nature really is……………

While working on my farm I moved some hay and manure and WOW!! There were thousands of earth worms,did you know that worms eat table scraps the same as they eat hay and manure.
I found info on worm composting and 1 pound of worms will eat at least a half pound of organic waste per day, then half that is worm castings, castings are the best fertilizer you can get, and put on your flowers, transplanting and more…
While looking at breeds of worms, I found the European Nightcrawler a breed that has been in North American for only a few years.
I am now raising this worm in my basement year round, they are good for fishing and composting.
This worm is from Holland. European Nightcrawlers are virtually unknown, but the handist fishing worm.They are normally 4″- 6″ long, they require No Refrigeration unlike the Canadian Nightcrawler, they also last longer under water… they live in a bait cup for 3-5 weeks UNREFRIGERATED, there shelf temps can range from 1 – 32 degrees.
They can be used for ice fishing as long as they don’t freeze. The fisherman that are using this worm think they are great.
I have 50,000 in my basement now! and could get up to 150,000 worms in my basement alone.
These worms are now being sold in Espanola, Massey and Spanish, in hardware, bait shops and outdoor recreation stores, they are sitting just on the counter or shelf because remember they don’t need to be refrigerated..
I am starting worm composting as well, there are composting bins in my bathroom, basement and kitchen with great success..

Next week I will talk about the amount of garbage we could keep out of our landfills composting with these bins alone and the great worm tea, liquid plant food, and the great worm castings…

THE FRIENDLY WORM GUY

Jeff Sonnenburg

Written by Jeff on February 29th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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