Worm farming, Worm tea and vermiculture are fast becoming the most popular home and garden hobby of all time. (Vermiculture = a worm breeding farm)
Economic factors combined with the simple fact that the awareness of the health of this planet has led the mass movement towards an overall healthier way of living. A lot of people are looking at organic living in all its different forms. Worm farming has fallen directly within that category. The very simplicity of the system allows everybody to keep their own small or large worm farm running in their own homes.
Worm tea is simply the watered down fluids that run through the farming system that allows the "tea" or liquid compost to be so powerful. An average worm farm would produce at the very least 2 liters of tea per week. People are doing this farming idea for a number of reasons, and the two most popular reasons are either for profit or to produce better and better healthy crops in their own gardens.
The profit side is obvious as the worms duplicate themselves very quickly and the more you have the more "tea" you will produce and be able to sell. Naturally you would be making money from the sale of the worms themselves too.
From the other side of it all you would be able to produce bumper crops of specific fruits and vegetables almost at will. From my own personal experience I can absolutely promise you that correctly done compost grown vegetables will grow faster, bigger and longer that if you simply made a feeble effort.
What you then do is to grow a collection of organically grown fruits and vegetables that are in demand.
All of these benefits from a worm business? Yes. And a resounding yes - at that. The worm business will run with very little maintenance and low costs. Anyone can do it, and there are no problems like smelly things. (The worm farm in fact has a pleasant forest smell if any smell at all.)
Now for the bad news
There are some basic rules that you will need to follow as the balance of the worms' environment is important. There are certain waste materials that you can feed the worms without any worry at all and others that will kill all your worms quickly. I heard of one place that put an old pair of pants in a worm farm and only the buttons and zips remained. However on the other end of the scale things like pineapple are extremely bad for your worm farm.
So to end I would highly suggest that you get yourself involved in the joys of setting up and running your own worm farm. Do it for fun or as a business. For whichever reasons that you use the environment will be an added winner in your planning.
Economic factors combined with the simple fact that the awareness of the health of this planet has led the mass movement towards an overall healthier way of living. A lot of people are looking at organic living in all its different forms. Worm farming has fallen directly within that category. The very simplicity of the system allows everybody to keep their own small or large worm farm running in their own homes.
Worm tea is simply the watered down fluids that run through the farming system that allows the "tea" or liquid compost to be so powerful. An average worm farm would produce at the very least 2 liters of tea per week. People are doing this farming idea for a number of reasons, and the two most popular reasons are either for profit or to produce better and better healthy crops in their own gardens.
The profit side is obvious as the worms duplicate themselves very quickly and the more you have the more "tea" you will produce and be able to sell. Naturally you would be making money from the sale of the worms themselves too.
From the other side of it all you would be able to produce bumper crops of specific fruits and vegetables almost at will. From my own personal experience I can absolutely promise you that correctly done compost grown vegetables will grow faster, bigger and longer that if you simply made a feeble effort.
What you then do is to grow a collection of organically grown fruits and vegetables that are in demand.
All of these benefits from a worm business? Yes. And a resounding yes - at that. The worm business will run with very little maintenance and low costs. Anyone can do it, and there are no problems like smelly things. (The worm farm in fact has a pleasant forest smell if any smell at all.)
Now for the bad news
There are some basic rules that you will need to follow as the balance of the worms' environment is important. There are certain waste materials that you can feed the worms without any worry at all and others that will kill all your worms quickly. I heard of one place that put an old pair of pants in a worm farm and only the buttons and zips remained. However on the other end of the scale things like pineapple are extremely bad for your worm farm.
So to end I would highly suggest that you get yourself involved in the joys of setting up and running your own worm farm. Do it for fun or as a business. For whichever reasons that you use the environment will be an added winner in your planning.
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