How many people have a worm bin / do vermicomposting (composting with worms)?
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Wawel Mercado
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- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- Through many sources: urban farmers philippines, the vermiculture at the quezon city circle, and CRTD
- What do your worms like to eat?
- Mixture of dried leaves, saw dust and cow manure
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- african nightcrawlers
- What worm bins do you use?
- We convereted an old concrete plant box in our resort, and turned it into a large worm bin
- How many pounds of garbage do your worms recycle each week?
- I would say as much as 20 lbs/week
- About Me:
- I am a resort owner from the Philippines. We use vermicomposting to manage the tons of garden waste material from our 2.5 hectare property. We use the vermicast for the ornamental plants, trees, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, flower gardens and rice fields in our resort
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- http://www.theforestclub.com
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Bob
What kind of worms are you using? Here in Hawaii we're using perionyx excavatus, aka Malaysian (or Indian) Blues. On the mainland, they use red wigglers which are much bigger worms, but some say PE are better at producing vermicompost.
In Cagayan I was working in public health - specifically child survival (keeping the kids under 5 yrs alive.) Trying to get the people in the barangays (sp?) to to things like feed veges to their children (an uphill battle). We used local community leaders as translators and I think the biggest impact was with them. After they'd translated the same advice 10 times, they pretty much believed it. Topics like immunizations, giving only mother's milk to infants, prevent diseases like diarrhea, TB and dengue fever, how to easily tell the difference between pneumonia (that needs to go to the hospital) and a cold, so mom's don't waste time and money on going to the hospital if it's not necessary. Etc. etc. I would go with a group of students who wanted to do this kind of thing as a profession and both they and the folks we were teaching benefited from it. I was there 4 times for 3 months each time. I don't like going for a short time, (other places I stayed for 3 years), but this was part of a university class, and therefore had to be short term.
Do you know if worms are very commonly used in the Philippines?