i got worms

I'm Reed, and I love my worm bins. This is a tumblr where I will post vermicomposting resources I find on the interwebs, and updates about my own adventures with worms. I'd love to hear from you! Email me at ilovetotumbl at gmail, or submit a form on the Submissions page. Check out my bin on vermicomposters.com!

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DEI Works!

In the garden ❤️😅😂

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Human hair is being used to clean up oil spills | CNN

San Francisco-based Matter of Trust takes human hair and animal fur and makes it into mats that are used to soak up oil spills.

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This is fascinating and I love the part with the mushrooms and the worms if this really works but my favorite part is that we spent decades like “oh no....oil is soaking into fur and feathers....if only we had something that could soak up all this oil”

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Farming educational purposes

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This gavava plant prepare used by vermicompost fertilizer

Beautiful!!

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more at: A Vegetable Growing Cheat Sheet [infographic]

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Oh my

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Crop Rotation Made Easy - Bonnie Plants

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How Slimy Little Worms Are Making Coffee Even Better

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear, worms? Fishing, slimy, early bird? Wherever your mind wanders when worms come up I bet it never lands on coffee. We are going to change that…

I’ve wondered if you can feed worms a diet of only coffee grounds. Looks like these guys feed theirs only coffee “pulp” and fishmeal.

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How To Build A Simple In-Ground Worm Pit | Adventures in Homesteading

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Separated my worms from their castings so I can use it as seed raising mix. This was all the worms from one tray. So bloody satisfying to see!

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Bioturbation–Worms at Work

from Wim von Egmond

Bioturbation is the mixing of (plant) residues into soils and sediments by biotic activity. It is one of the fundamental processes in ecology, as it stimulates decomposition, creates habitats for other (micro) fauna and increases gas and water flow through the soil.

This time lapse movie shows bioturbation by 3 earthworms species:

Lumbricus terrestris (an ’anecic’ earthworm, feeding on leaves and living in deep vertical burrows; 2 individuals present)

Lumbricus rubellus (an ’epigeic’ earthworm, feeding on leaves and living in shallow, non-permanent burrows; 2 individuals present)

Aporrectodea caliginosa (an ‘endogeic’ earthworm, feeding on decomposed organic matter and living deeper in the soil; 3 individuals present).

Poplar leaves were applied on top of the soil as food for the earthworms. Different soil layers were simulated by mixing a topsoil (rich in organic matter) with quartz sand in various ratios.

The recording lasted 1 month. This movie was made in collaboration with scientists from the Department of Soil Quality of Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

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This, my friends, is why you should mulch instead of tilling.

When you don’t disturb their habitat too much, detritus-feeders will turn all your organic waste inter soil nutrition, basically till your soil, and increase water infiltration.

More videos

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Since curbside newspaper boxes don’t get a lot of action selling papers anymore, a new urban intervention puts them to use as something else: convenient compost bins.

“The boxes are so commonplace in the city, and I wanted to subtly tweak them to make people stop, look twice, and think about what they are seeing versus what they expect to see,” says designer Debbie Ullman, who created the New York Compost Box Project.

Placed next to community gardens, the boxes serve as a place for anyone to recycle food waste as they walk by. “The idea is to make it possible for busy New Yorkers to drop their scraps whenever it’s convenient for them, 24/7.”

(via What To Do With Old Newspaper Boxes? Make Them Streetside Compost Bins)

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Love it!

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Compost!

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Love my wormies!

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Every time I feed the wormies I have a bit of a dig around the trays to see how the population’s going and I’ve just been so happy to see handfuls of cuties pumping around the place!

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Beautiful