A growing body of field tests demonstrates vermicompost’s effect on plant growth, yield, and pest and pathogen suppression. What those field tests can’t do quite as well is say exactly why vermicompost can produce such positive results in comparison to...
Today, I am thrilled to release this interview with my friend, Francisco Niembro of Aldea Verde Lombricultura, a large-scale vermicomposting company based in Queretaro, Mexico about 2 hours north of Mexico City. Today, I am thrilled to release this interview with my...
About a year ago, I watched a fascinating time lapse video of the assembly of one of the most attractive continuous flow vermicomposting systems I have ever seen. Some guy named Dan Lonowski of Michigan SoilWorks and Gavin Newton of Detroit-area worm castings producer...
In Part I of this interview about soil biology with Heather Rinaldi and Nina Folch, we learned some pretty crucial stuff about what constitutes excellent soil, how to recognize when it’s good, and what to do about it when it’s not. But the one thing we...
I kind of always thought of soil as just “dirt”, the stuff under the grass, the brown substance plants just magically grow out of. And it wasn’t until embarrassingly recently that I learned of the level of complexity that ecosystem that exists, or at least...
I’m thrilled to be interviewing Paul Piccirillo today. If you’ve poked around the web for information on vermicomposting and vermiculture, you’ve no doubt run across his vast library of helpful content at Worm Farming Revealed. Pauly’s an...
