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| | Worm Composting Basics |
 | | Worm composting is using worms to recycle food scraps and other organic material into a valuable soil amendment called vermicompost, or worm compost. | | | The compost can be directly mixed with your potting soil or garden soil as a soil amendment, which helps make nutrients available to plants. | | | If you are using the compost indoors, you may want to remove old bedding and food scraps for aesthetic purposes and ensure that there are no worms in the compost. |
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http://compost.css.cornell.edu/worms/basics.html
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| | Worm Composting Instructions, Diet, and Harvesting |
| | Compost fall leaves, hay bales, holly wreaths, pine trees, etc. Compost pumpkins (food waste) in a compost pile. | | | Worms need to be protected from pests which would be attracted to rotting food left in the open. | | | Worms don't have teeth, so they need something gritty to use in grinding up the paper and food. |
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http://www.mastercomposter.com/worm/wormcomp.html
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| | Smartgardening - Worm Composting |
| | Worm compost is also a rich source of nitrogen, making it an excellent organic fertilizer. | | | The resulting compost is an excellent soil amendment that can be used to make potting soil for house plants or as a fertilizer for your garden. | | | Finally, the worm tea (the liquid that is produced during the composting process) is also an excellent organic fertilizer and contains many essential minerals and nutrients plants need to grow. |
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http://ladpw.org/epd/sg/wc.cfm
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| | Spokane Solid Waste - Composting - Worm Composting |
| | The worms will migrate to the fresh material and the compost may be removed and replaced with new bedding. | | | The worms turn both food wastes and bedding into a high-quality compost suitable for use on house plants, seedlings or general garden use. | | | Red worms are the most satisfactory and efficient type of worm to use for composting. |
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http://www.solidwaste.org/comworms.htm
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| | Worm Composting |
| | Worms need moisture to keep their skin wet enough to wriggle and burrow with ease. | | | I discovered that the easiest way to harvest the finished compost is simply to push the bedding and worms to one end of the box and fill the other end with fresh bedding and table scraps. | | | Rich with phosphorus, nitrogen, and many other nutrients and trace minerals, worm compost is an excellent organic fertilizer. |
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http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00029.asp
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| | Worm Farm.Com - Worm Farms and Vermicomposting |
| | Worms are ready to eat that organic waste and give us fertilizer in return. | | | he unseen worm, who has been quietly aerating, tilling, and fertilizing the soil for centuries, is truly our partner in the fight to save the environment. | | | As if that wasn't enough, over-tillage of the soil destroys the worm tunnels that are vital to their efforts. |
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http://www.wormfarm.com
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| | Home Vermicomposting : Composting Worms : Acme Worm Farm |
| | Compost worms are a low maintenance form of livestock. | | | It's better for the worms for the bedding to be too wet than too dry, but over-wet conditions are more favorable to pests like flies and mites. | | | The worms will like the humid atmosphere as they crawl around on top of their food at night. |
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http://www.acmewormfarm.com/vermiculture1.html
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| | Worm Composting |
| | Worm composting is a method for recycling food waste into a rich, dark, earth-smelling soil conditioner. | | | It is advisable not to compost meats, dairy products, oily foods, and grains because of problems with smells, flies, and rodents. | | | Please do not use dew-worms (large size worms found in soil and compost) as they are not likely to survive. |
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http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
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| | Home composting--getting started |
| | Worm composting will turn food wastes into a rich fertilizer and soil amendment. | | | should be composted only in worm-boxes, rodent-proof bins or buckets (with no holes bigger than 1/4 inch) or by burying small amounts at least one foot deep in a compost pile. | | | Water as needed, so compost is kept moist as a wrung out sponge. |
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http://www.recyclenow.org/r_composting_getstarted.html
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| | Compost FAQ: FREQUENTLY ASKED COMPOST QUESTIONS |
| | If the worms are still doing this and you are sure there is enough moisture (worms like 75% moisture) there is a slight chance that the bin may have gone slightly acidic. | | | I am using a composted mixture of horse manure and sawdust on my flower garden. | | | Compost is often used to bring acidic or alkaline soils back into balance. |
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http://www.mastercomposter.com/ref/faq.html
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| | Teacher Guide |
| | Worms aerate the soil with their constant squirming and nourish it with their castings. | | | Students can record in their journals data pertaining to the weight and color of the soils, how quickly the seeds germinate, how healthy the plant is, and how hardy its flower is. They can judge taste, too, if vegetable seeds are used. | | | Of course, your discussion of leech behavior is a great segue into a larger discussion of the more contemporary uses we have for other varieties of worms....all thanks to their squirmy behavior and unique digestion. |
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http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/teachercenter/pg000066.htm
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| | Worm Composting |
| | Worms will be happiest at a constant temperature of about 65-75 degrees F, but they can tolerate temperatures anywhere from 50-80 degrees F. After a few days, begin feeding kitchen scraps. | | | If you push the compost to one side of the bin while adding bedding and food to the other side, eventually all of the worms will migrate, and you can harvest the worm-free compost while keeping your bin in constant use. | | | Allow worms 2-3 days to get used to their new home before their first feeding. |
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http://www.ebfarm.com/Kids/WormComposting.aspx
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| | Worms .com..·´¯`·..´¯`·.. 1-800 COMPOST ® |
| | Fall provides free compost that has essential nutrients | | | The school would use worms to compost garbage and then sell the worm castings to area greenhouses for fertilizer. | | | Originally, it was hauled to the Lake County Worm Farm, which closed in 2004. |
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http://www.worms.com
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| | Worm Compost Bins |
| | Worm castins are very expensive to purchase, but your worms will turn food wastes into an abundance of casting for your plants. | | | Any worm bin must have drainage in the bottom and a tight-fitting lid to keep moisture in and pests out. | | | So what can you do with food wastes? |
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http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/wormbins.htm
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| | How To Build A Compost Bin |
| | Moisten the bedding material for the worms by placing it in a 5-gallon bucket and adding enough water to dampen all material. | | | Don't worry about getting the bedding material too wet because the excess moisture will drain off when it is placed in the compost bin. | | | It is a good idea to put wet bedding material into the bin outdoors and wait until all the water has drained out (1-2 hours). |
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http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/AppalFor/bins.html
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| | The advantage of using castings is the manure passes through the worms' digestive system producing rich organic plant food and a slow releasing fertilizer, which allows for better growth. | | | The activity of the earthworm gut is like a miniature composting tube that mixes, conditions, and inoculates the residues. | | | The soil additive is marketed in the form of mulch, compost, or vermicompost, in bulk or in bags. |
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http://www.kitsapezearth.com/fact.html
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| | nyc compost project: indoor composting with a worm bin |
| | Every thing you will need (except the worms!) is shown here: a sealable plastic container (such as a storage box), a drill, shredded newspaper, food scraps, and water. | | | The size of the bin you need is determined by two factors—how much space you have and the amount of food scraps your family produces. | | | Your worms will require about 8 inches of bedding material, such as leaves, potting soil, or one-inch strips of newspaper. |
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http://www.nyccompost.org/how/wormbin.html
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| | Worm Compost |
| | The crop holds the food until the worm needs the nutrients from that food. | | | Both the gizzard and the crop help the worm digest and process the food that it eats. | | | Anything plastic is not healthy for worms to eat, it is toxic and impossible to digest. |
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http://www.sonic.net/~roniz/hhp/shells/projects/worm.html
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| | Worm Composting - Vermicomposting |
| | Composting, nature's way of recycling, is the controlled decomposition of organic material such as leaves, grass clippings, and twigs. | | | Worm Composting Worm composting (or vermicomposting) is a natural and efficient way to "recycle" your organic kitchen waste. | | | Nationwide shippers and growers of redworms and manure worms that are used in composting and turn your scraps into organic fertilizer. |
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http://www.csrnet.org/csrnet/Worms/wormbind.html
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| | Kitsap County Public Works - Solid Waste Division |
| | Compost also improves your soil and the plants growing in it. | | | Decomposition and recycling of organic wastes are an essential part of soil building and healthy plant growth in forests, meadows, and in your home garden. | | | Organic matter in the soil improves plant growth by helping to break heavy-clay soils into a better texture, by adding water and nutrient-holding capacity to sandy soils, and by adding essential nutrients to any soil. |
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http://www.kitsapgov.com/sw/compost.htm
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| | Worms |
| | Still other types of worms live as parasites in various animals and plants causing a number of diseases. | | | These animals are insects in their larval (juvenile) stage and do not resemble worms after they mature. | | | Worms usually live in soil; some live in water. |
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http://www.42explore.com/worms.htm
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| | IPCC Growing Wiser Wilflife Gardening - Worm Composting: Winning the Battle Against Waste |
| | In general it is better to mix it with leaf mould, coir or shredded wood compost or green waste compost to make material suitable for potting on container grown plants or as a rich mix for tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and window boxes. | | | Once the compost and semi digested organic waste in the bin reaches within a few inches of the top of the bin it's time to organise some help and empty it. | | | They are not a problem and in fact if you store your compost for a while in a plastic sack you'll find that the number of worms decreases quite dramatically (presumably the result of fresh food material being absent). |
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http://www.ipcc.ie/cramptoncompost4.html
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| | Worm Suppliers |
| | Written in the style of "books for dummies", this is a great how-to book on how to grow worms for composting, for a business, or for the product produced from growing worms and composting(vermicompost). | | | Growing all natural Soil Amendments, Worms, and Worm Castings with over 5,000 square feet of growth area and hundreds of thousands of Red Wiggler Composting worms. | | | This directive outlines the entry conditions developed to mitigate the risk of pest (soil) introduction on cultivated worms. |
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http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormsupl79.html
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| | Can-O-Worm Compost Bin |
| | Can-O-Worms uses worms to compost food scraps quickly and easily. | | | Use nature to make nutrient rich plant food. | | | Turn Food Waste Into Profits!?Get Free castings for your plants, worms for fishing, feeding pets, for bait or resale! |
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http://cricketfarm.com/pd_canoworms.cfm
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| | VermiCo Earthworm and Castings |
| | We have discovered that there are many different types of interest in vermiculture (breeding earthworms) and vermicomposting (converting organic waste into worm castings—a valuable soil amendment that acts like a bio-fertilizer and bio-insecticide). | | | Because of the variety of your questions we’ve created many sources of information—supplying you with answers in the form of books, videos, a newsletter, tools, cds, packages, classes and recommendations. |
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http://www.vermico.com
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| | berkeley worms composting collective |
| | Our herd of red worms (Eisenia foetida) turns vegetable matter we collect into one of the best organic fertilizers around: worm castings. | | | Berkeley Worms was founded in 1993 with seed funds from the Alameda County Waste Management Authority. | | | As we expand and become financially self-sustaining, we hope to be a model for small institutions and municipalities, demonstrating a cost-effective method for recycling organic food waste. |
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http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~compost
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| | Happy D Ranch 3 |
| | You'll find everything from worms to worm farming starter kits, plus an abundance of helpful information for every situation. | | | Let us help you determine which bin is right for you! | | | We've got a great selection of books and videos for everyone from the home composter to the entrepreneur. |
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http://www.happydranch.com
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| | Compost Worm |
| | The manual at Glossary says you can dig for compost worm "These are found by digging on the metric hour". | | | In fact I think I got one around x:10:00. | | | I tried that but couldn't get any compost worm. |
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http://www.toadwater.com/index.php?topic=12792.0
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