Green Living is the Life For Me!
My wife and I just invested in the Worm Factory 360 and 1000 Red Wigglers to start our own vermicomposting. Our hope is be able to compost our old newspaper and food scraps and turn them into richer fertilizer for our expanded garden this year and become more sustainable in the process.
"Worm poop is gold!" according to Jeff Lowenfels, author of Teaming with Microbes. Lowenfels goes on to explain that soil a worm digests is suddenly 5 times richer in nitrogen, 10 times richer in potassium, has 7 times more phosphate, 1.5 times as much calcium and 3 times the magnesium. (Taken from Forward to The Complete Guide to Vermicomposting with the Worm Factory 360)
Photos from our Worm Farm Installation
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| Opening up the package of worms |
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| Starter compost for the worms |
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| Adding the Red Wrigglers |
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| Checking on the worms progress and temperature |
Our cost for the Worm Factory 360 was a little over $110 and $20 for 1000 Red Wrigglers to get us started.
Look for updates to our experience in future posts on this blog.
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