https://modernfarmer.com/2019/09/this-canadian-worm-farm-turns-organic-office-waste-into-plant-food/ Farm. Food. Life. Mon, 13 May 2024 15:22:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://modernfarmer.com/2019/09/this-canadian-worm-farm-turns-organic-office-waste-into-plant-food/#comment-40766 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:03:04 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=68352#comment-40766 i GREW UP raising worms to sell only income a kid could make…bought bikes, roller skates a new skirt etc. funny little guys…didn’t like bones or eggshells would kick the cleaned bones and shells back on top…had I realized could have fed the shells to a chicken for the calcium…cold weather the guys would go below the compost box ours was sitting on the ground with open bottom…as long as we gave them scraps, they never ran away…the compost was warm…thus they didn’t migrate below too often. …we always had a cat… she was well fed therefore…a good hunter …dad who always watered the worms to keep the bed moist but not flooded, said he could hear them eating…don’t know if that was true. Worm bed was in three sections…moved them along by feeding into the next section. In Later years a friend had a friend in Wisconsin who did it on a big commercial scale.

]]> https://modernfarmer.com/2019/09/this-canadian-worm-farm-turns-organic-office-waste-into-plant-food/#comment-25327 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:52:55 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=68352#comment-25327 How do you deal with cold temperatures? Do you heat the building?
How do you control rodents?
This is very interesting.

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