To my utter shock and delight i found it crawling with what must have been the native composting worms. When I pulled my compost bin wire out to level the ground for some reason I decided to explore the humus where the bin was. In the spring when I leave tx i take everything out of my garden and cover it with landscape fabric so it doesnt become overgrown with bermuda grass. i did notice that all the plants around the bin where the biggest and greenest all winter. I did this for 6 months, it was probably close to 50% food scraps to 50% leaves. I planted some cucumbers around it to utilize the wire as a trellis. I did go 2-3 wks sometimes without watering it but overall i kept it pretty damp. I would take my kitchen scraps, dump them in the wire and threw some leaves on top of them to keep fruit flies down. If you look close in the picture you can see the wire bin right behind the basil and cucumbers.I took this idea from this website from a keyhole bed design with compost bin in the middle. So I took a piece of wire bent it in a circle dug out my raised bed to ground level set that wire in there and filled the dirt back around it but left it empty inside the wire. I wanted a way to deal with my kitchen scraps but I cant do a regular compost pile because being in an rv park there is a lack of space in my tiny lot plus asthetics. So here is what i did, i have 2 raised beds as seen in the photos. Unbeknowest to me I accidently did this but if I hadnt listened to that course I would have thought it was just some earth worms. So he said to find out if you have local composting worms create the ideal conditions and see if they show up. What really stuck in my mind was he said that common earthworms are basically loners and you wont find them in masses of worms were composting type worms can be found in masses. I have learned very much from this course. I have decided i am going to do a small worm bin soon so in preperation I ordered an online audio course on worm composting from this site () as I knew nothing about it worm composting. I have 2 small raised beds there that are 3 yrs old, mostly composted old hay, horse poop, leaves and straw so its pretty rich in humus soil. I no longer garden on a big scale in tx as I stay in an rv park in the winter only. Over the yrs i have seen some earth worms in the soil, more as the soil improved but never the amount that i have seen in the soil in the midwest. Have gardened in various ways, always with no pesticides. I spent almost 30 yrs in south tx near mcallen. The worm farm maintained contact with the soil, since, I believed the conditions I provided were better than the surroundings, I noticed no decrease in population from doing this, and if any stragglers came by, they could join the worm orgy, roman food fest. The worms found it easily, in six months, I had bajillions of worms in a worm farm. I have coaxed worms out of soil by just putting a food scrap/yard litter pile in a shady spot, and watering when it needed it. I wish I could remember where I saw that video, if any one knows what one I am talking about please share. He pretty much transformed his whole farm this way to lush pastures and credits this process for his success. He uses that as a worm incubator of sorts to spread them to parts of his property without much fertility. He would use that "plug" of good soil and dig a hole in a crappy spot, fill with plug. His strategy was to take a small chunk of earth (maybe a spade shovel round hole, so about 15" wide and shovel depth) with the grass and other plants that were growing, that was rich with humus and worms. Northwest Redworms in the news: The website "Future Human" sent out a journalist to look at our black soldier fly operation.I saw a video of a guy in Australia I believe. The redworm cedar compost bin “build it yourself” digital download instructions available here: Worm castings, leaf mulch, insect fras and other composts available. We have luxury handmade soaps made from pig lard and cow tallow produced on this farm.Ĭhicken eggs $6 dozen($.25 credit for empty clean egg cartons, $2 credit max per dozen), duck eggs $8 dozen, pickup only, text for appt. See the pickup page for more info and prices. The “ EZ BSF larvae lab” to grow your own black soldier fly larvae.įeeder insects: Dubia roaches, Mealworms, Superworms (pick up only at this time). To have them shipped go here.īlack soldier fly larvae all sizes and quantities to pickup go here, to have them shipped go here. Text for an appointment time, for more information go here. We have redworms $25 per 1/2 lb, $40 per 1 lb for pickup. Check the new prices here.Īll black soldier fly larvae 10-15% off BSFL Redworm castings as low as $100 per yard. New item “ Black soldier fly breeding tent” We are temporarily out of redworms until further notice. REDWORM COMPOSTING is your vehicle to TRANSFORM ORGANIC WASTE into a nutritional delicacy for your garden
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