McLendons Hardware is carrying this now. i'm curious to see what it looks like under the microscope.
i just added a yard of the Cedar Grove to my veggie garden. super active with molds/fungi
all kinds of weird crap sproutin' up.
Von
Last week I went on a 'fact finding tour' of worm breeders as well as those running worm operations for the castings. Quite a different set-up and process as I learned.
I looked at one gentleman's worm bin that he bought to be able to use the African Nightcrawlers - here's a photo of the bin...........
Temperature controlled as well as monitoring the air/aeration in the bin. I was more than a little impressed - especially when he told me that he paid $7,500.00 for the unit (includes delivery). "You mean you spent that much money just to raise a type of worm? Man, I need to introduce my wife to your wife!"
Then it was on to worm breeders and their set-ups which was generally 4' x 8' x 8" fiberglass trays where the food items are placed in the bins and allowed to decompose for several days and turned and inoculated with worms or cocoons. Once the material has been digested the worms are harvested to fill orders.
The one constant in the 5 worm operations I visited was the use of manure - even bagged steer manure from nurseries. Same with the composted chicken and horse manures.
As was pointed out to me that while produce (or kitchen scraps) are definitely something you want to feed your worms it is difficult to produce large volumes of castings. Even nutrient dense vegetables like beets are 84% water and by the time you get to the lettuces you're up over 98% water.
It was an interesting look at how others are doing things.
CC
Von
Last week I went on a 'fact finding tour' of worm breeders as well as those running worm operations for the castings. Quite a different set-up and process as I learned.
I looked at one gentleman's worm bin that he bought to be able to use the African Nightcrawlers - here's a photo of the bin...........
Temperature controlled as well as monitoring the air/aeration in the bin. I was more than a little impressed - especially when he told me that he paid $7,500.00 for the unit (includes delivery). "You mean you spent that much money just to raise a type of worm? Man, I need to introduce my wife to your wife!"
Then it was on to worm breeders and their set-ups which was generally 4' x 8' x 8" fiberglass trays where the food items are placed in the bins and allowed to decompose for several days and turned and inoculated with worms or cocoons. Once the material has been digested the worms are harvested to fill orders.
The one constant in the 5 worm operations I visited was the use of manure - even bagged steer manure from nurseries. Same with the composted chicken and horse manures.
As was pointed out to me that while produce (or kitchen scraps) are definitely something you want to feed your worms it is difficult to produce large volumes of castings. Even nutrient dense vegetables like beets are 84% water and by the time you get to the lettuces you're up over 98% water.
It was an interesting look at how others are doing things.
CC
