Sentences with phrase «using vermicompost»
A famous Napa vineyard using vermicompost planted two acres of vines, and had no vine loss whatsoever.»
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Increasingly, schools have their own gardens, where students learn such key skills as mulching (laying materials such as straw on soil to protect it) and vermicomposting (using worms to convert waste to fertilizer).
Valid efforts from Florblanca include, actively participating in the local Recycling Program and using its organic waste for the production of compost and vermicompost, which is used to enrich the soil of the property's onsite biogarden that is treated with organic fertilizer, pesticide and insecticide.
The red wigglers, or Eisenia Fetida, commonly used for vermicomposting are ideally suited to our homes; they thrive in the same temperature ranges as humans and eat many of the same foods.
From airport scale worm composting to vermicomposting farm waste, the idea of using worms to eat our garbage is no longer confined to plastic tubs in TreeHuggers» basements.
Adam and his students have a deal with a local restaurant in which they take the food scraps from the restaurant, then add it to their worm bins in Adam's garden, and use the resulting vermicompost to feed the garden.