Land spreading out so far and wide...

Welcome to the musings of Ed and Beverly as they transition from 30 years in the suburbs to life on the rural route

Friday, April 23, 2010

Home Brew

It's not a copper kettle. You won't find Dooley, slippin' up a holler. It's a Can-O-Worms Composter. This Spring we harvested our first batch of worm tea, a rich by-product of vermicomposting. Hundreds of red wiggler worms nestled in the stacked bins of the can feeding on kitchen waste, animal hair & mysterious debris from the vacuum cleaner. Yum. Yum. After about a year, the worms, acting a nature's best recyclers, produced dark composted castings for our garden soil and several gallons of tea to use in foliar feeding. The nutritious elixir is so concentrated that it must be diluted 4:1. Wow! It's better than a V-8! One guy paid all his college expenses by selling worm tea fertilizer. At least that's what we read on the website. We are happily giving friends all they want, while supplies last. Or until the revenuers catch up with us.

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