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Vermicompost is the final product of composting vegetation with worms. We use a species of worms known as Red Wigglers to digest a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetables, food wastes, and bedding materials (newspaper, straw, peat, leaves or other digestible cellulose materials) into vermicast. Vermicast, also referred to as worm castings, worm humus or worm manure, is the nutrient-rich, organic fertilizer/soil conditioner excreted by the worms as they digest organic matter.
Red Wigglers (Eisenia fetida) is a species of earthworm adapted to digesting decaying organic material and thrive in rotting vegetation, compost, and manure. They are ideally suited to eat food scraps and other organic matter very quickly and to live in the confines of a worm bin. They eat up to their body weight each day in food matter and reproduce exponentially, doubling every 2-3 months, if given enough food, space, and the correct environmental conditions (temperature - 59-80 F, pH - 5-8 and humidity - moist, but not wet).
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Vermicompost is the final product of composting vegetation with worms. We use a species of worms known as Red Wigglers to digest a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetables, food wastes, and bedding materials (newspaper, straw, peat, leaves or other digestible cellulose materials) into vermicast. Vermicast, also referred to as worm castings, worm humus or worm manure, is the nutrient-rich, organic fertilizer/soil conditioner excreted by the worms as they digest organic matter.
Red Wigglers (Eisenia fetida) is a species of earthworm adapted to digesting decaying organic material and thrive in rotting vegetation, compost, and manure. They are ideally suited to eat food scraps and other organic matter very quickly and to live in the confines of a worm bin. They eat up to their body weight each day in food matter and reproduce exponentially, doubling every 2-3 months, if given enough food, space, and the correct environmental conditions (temperature - 59-80 F, pH - 5-8 and humidity - moist, but not wet).