How to Build a Worm Farm

Building a worm farm, or vermicomposting, is quitewaste lying around your house. The castings are also
simple if you have the right products. The easiestvery valuable to your plants. They are more suitable
product to start with would be an old barrel or woodthan regular fertilizers in such a way that they
crate. Fill the barrel with about 25% dirt and 25% ofincrease plants resistance to pests and disease.
other compost material, such as leaves, agedIt is known that adding these castings to your soil
manure, and old food scraps. The best worm to usecan increase germination by almost 70%. This will
is undoubtedly the Red worm. It is after the wormundoubtedly keep your plants alive much longer than
eats this waste that the environmental benefits trulythey would have with normal soil and fertilizer. A
come to light.good way to teach your children about helping the
Worm castings are much richer in nutrients thanenvironment is by buying them a worm farm to
compost made from other composting methods.show them how to recycle. This will teach them a
These castings will in turn produce small seeds, thosevaluable lesson and path the way for future
of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants.generations to care more about the environment.
Vermicomposting will reduce the amount of wasteWorms have protected our ground for centuries,
taken to waste sites every day, they will providewhile poisons and pest removers have evacuated
great fertilizer for your crops, and also provide baitthese worms, and destroyed that ground. There are
for fishing. The soil produced can be used forso many environmental benefits to worm farming,
gardens, crops and house plants. This is a great formwhy not do our small part in helping the environment
of recycling which you can use to easily rid of thethat we love so much.