Last year, Project Ix-canaan hosted a vermiculture workshop led by Cathy Nesbitt of Ontario, Canada (Cathy’s Crawly Composters) and Maria Rodriguez of Guatemala City (Byoearth). You can read more about the workshop here. The goal was to find a way to replentish and reenergise the incredibly bad soil so it would support garden vegetables.
After a year of operation, my worm farm is successfully producing soil and the worms are multiplying exponentially.
The structure is built simply from sheets of corrugated metal, folded into a “U” shape and covered to keep the light off the soil.
One end is raised higher than the other end, allowing constant drainage.
Inside each “U” is a mixture of paper, cardboard, manure and table scraps with tons of worms … and soil … rich dark soil … that the worms are producing rapidly.
Each day the worms are watered … and about once every three days, more food is added to the highest end of the tube.
At the lower end of the two tubes are basins to catch the incredibly rich dark worm-liquid that we use as a natural and potent fertiliser. The white tambo holds more of the liquid.
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I have two other styles of worm farms. On the left are tubes that have been drilled with holes and sunk down into my garden beds. And on the right, is a plastic box designed especially for worm farms. It was donated to our research efforts by Cathy of Cathy’s Crawly Composters in Ontario.
However, the metal “U” design has been the most successful to date.
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