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We’re a small scale worm farm in SE Wisconsin. Eliminating the idea of waste. Hi! Thanks for checking out my page. Vegetables love worm castings!

I'm a small time worm farmer located in SE Wisconsin, with about 3000 redworms. I plan on scaling my little vermicompost system into a few CFT (continous flow) style bins in the near future. Follow this page, I'll be sure to post it with updates along this little and hopeful fruitful venture of mine. Uses for worm castings fertilizer are being discovered all across the planet. Some of the more pop

ular uses for vermicompost include: Flower Gardens
Vegetable Gardens
Tree cultivation

Worm castings used for flower gardens provide high levels of soil-boosting nutrients to produce hardy, fast-growing flowers. Roots develop much more strongly, reaching deeper into the ground and assuring robust plants throughout any spring or summer environment. Plants are hardier, and transplanting is more consistently successful. Flowers respond well to worm castings fertilizer because it delivers the essential nutrients plants need, along with plant growth hormones, in an easily absorbed, time-release manner. The nutrients in worm castings are readily available, and work synergistically with your existing soil to make the mineral reserves within your soil available when you plant need them. Worm castings also improve the ability of the soil to retain more water and help flowers resist root disease. Our worm castings grow tasty vegetables in the garden. Besides being loaded with nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, worm castings also have the calcium, carbon, iron, manganese, copper, zinc and cobalt plants need. All of these nutrients and trace minerals are readily available to the plant through its root structure. Another great benefit of worm castings: no matter how much you put around your plants, it won’t burn them like chemical fertilizers can. Worm castings are completely non-toxic and entirely safe for the planet and its occupants. Because the nutrients are released over time, an application of worm castings typically lasts about 2 months. Best of all, it’s not uncommon to see yields increase by as much as 25%. The best results appear to come from combining worm castings with compost. This is a conservative way to maximize the crop without risk of favoring too much or too little of one particular nutrient. Worm castings and compost work exceptionally well together.

05/22/2024

Hope everyone’s enjoying there week! ☀️

05/02/2024

Bought to dive into this, thanks Tom Martwick!

04/22/2024

Happy earth day !

How are YOU celebrating?

04/10/2024

Gardeners, what are you most looking forward to growing this year?

04/02/2024

Caught this slacker laying down on the heat mats while guarding my seedlings!!

03/31/2024

Was digging up some horse manure I’ve had outside for a few months for a few of my breeder bins… stumbled upon this big ol’ nightcrawlers.

03/31/2024

From everyone at Diddly Squat Worm Farm, we hope yall have a Happy Easter !

03/26/2024

About 3 weeks ago I bought my first tub as a breeder bin. After sifting all the worms and bigger chucks with 1/4” screen strainer I got from Amazon, I then used a 1/8” screen for all the cocoons.

Well I know I have AT least 6 cocoons, and half a tub of castings. Being put to use with the seeds I’m starting !

03/22/2024

Never made a ‘happy digest day of spring’ type post 3 days ago… thought with little bit of snow we just got would make up instead ❄️❄️

03/19/2024

Got these in last week.

Really looking forward to the squash.

From Mother Earth gardener: The seeds were found in 2008 during an archaeological dig on a Menominee reservation near Green Bay, Wisconsin. The dig was conducted by Canadian Mennonite University. A clay vessel, about the size of a tennis ball, was recovered; such devices were used in the region for seed storage. Sure enough, the vessel was found to contain seeds—in this case, seed of what was to become known as ‘Gete-okosimin’ squash. The artifact was carbon-dated to about 850 years ago, according to Susan Menzel of Chicago’s American Indian Center, in an article published by the Chicago Tribune.

This squash is known to of been grown by the Miami Nation 5000 years ago.

Stories like that is why I want to get into .

What are you growing this year?

03/03/2024

Taking advantage of the nice weather and full sun. Harvesting my first tub of worms / castings!

02/14/2024

‘‘Tis the season to start picking and ordering what I’ll be planting this year! I’ve always wanted to get into seed saving, why not start now.

Also, I feel like a kid in a candy shop

01/30/2024

Stole this from Gary Vaynerchuk! This weeks for myself

12/22/2023

If you had a $50 Fleet Farm gift card, what would you buy?

12/18/2023

Great read.

Three million red wiggler worms are wiggling away on the Arizona Worm Farm in South Phoenix, helping to complete a waste-to-nutrient cycle.

12/18/2023

Although it’s 24 degrees out, it’s always a nice day when a Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company catalog comes in the mail!

12/17/2023

Hope everyone’s enjoying there Sundays.

I know I am.

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12/16/2023

5 cents a worm? Thats too much. Whos your worm guy?

12/12/2023

Just how effective is vermicast on plants⁉️

Good question‼️

🌱These three turnips received equal amounts of nitrogen. The turnip, left, received no vermicast, while the turnips, center and right, were grown in soil amended with 10 percent and 20 percent (by volume) vermicast.

The power of 🪱 is real.

12/10/2023

If you live within the Village or Town of Mukwonago or surrounding areas, would you consider participating in an organic collection pilot program?

If so, I'd appreciate if you would provide feedback by filling out this google form!

We created this survey for people who would have interest in an organic waste pickup in the village of Mukwonago and surrounding areas. The organics will be pre-composted in an Aerated static compost bin to feed my red wrigglers. I plan on doing a weekly pick up, on the same day as garbage pickup. A...

12/10/2023

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone’s relaxing today.

12/09/2023

45 degrees F in Wisconsin on December 9th makes for a great opportunity to shred 11 lawn and leaf bags of leaves with a lawnmower!

Planning on topping off the Aerated static pile, then the rest to sit over winter for leaf mold.

Edit: 2nd picture is about 3 feet high. Wish I could’ve gotten lot more bag. Next year!

12/09/2023

31 days until my flight from the arctic tundra of Wisconsin to a more mild climate in Phoenix for the Arizona Worm Farm conference!

Looking forward to networking with people with way more knowledge in regards to worms then I do!

12/09/2023

Another funny!

Happy Friday!

www.memesworms.com

12/07/2023

Saw this in a group, got a laugh!

12/01/2023

Important stuff!

Ecological succession & soil building 🌱♻️

📚 Ecological succession is a process of change in ecosystems that affect the structure of the species over time.

1️⃣ Each community creates conditions that subsequently allow next communities to adapt to a habitat.
2️⃣ Gradually, the decomposition of biomass contributes to soil formation.
3️⃣ When mature soil is formed and enough amount of nutrients become available the climax community (stable ecosystem e.g. a forest), is attained.
4️⃣ A climax community will persist in a given location until novel disturbances occur.

🦠 Microbiome consortia are an important part of this process.
-> 🌾 In agricultural soils that are regularly tilled, the weight of fungi is less than that of bacteria (that better tolerate disturbances).
-> 🌱 In grassland areas, there is around an equal distribution of bacteria and fungi
-> 🌲 The weight of fungi present in forest soils is much greater than the weight of bacteria.

🚜 Agricultural intensification has led to practices that may decrease soil organic carbon (SOC) and changes the natural cycling of nutrients in the soil. The adaptation of regenerative farming practices can thus help to avoid soil disturbance and leave room for natural soil formation processes.

📷 Image: following stages of secondary succession (top; 1), soil cores demonstrating the development of a litter and humus layer on sandy soil in regenerating boreal forest after clearance for agriculture (bottom; 2) [credits: 1 - Permaculture Apprentice; 2 -Beth Evans].

11/26/2023

$30 FB Marketplace score!

11/07/2023

ASP compost piles 95% done 🙂

11/02/2023

Here’s my link to my eBay store , if anyone’s interested in purchasing! Will be adding various quantities soon.

Follow diddlyswuatwormfarm on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!

11/01/2023

Great article in Modern Farmer about vermicomposting!

Just a few years ago, I barely recycled. Living in a Hobbit-sized apartment in Brooklyn, I didn’t want to use up precious space with a recycling bin,

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