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"Worms play a vital role in soil health, soil fertility and ultimately, the yield of a garden. Designed as a straightforward, easy-to-use handbook, Worms at Work is a no-fuss guide to creating and harnessing the power of vermicompost. Intended for the beginning gardener and experienced farmer alike, all that is required is a healthy appreciation for healthy, happy soil!"--
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With its focus on how to make money raising earthworms, this book is a welcome source of up-to-date information on the business of vermiculture. Bogdanov puts vermiculture into a historical context, gives basic information about composting worms, tells how to get started, and describes how to set up commercial beds. He covers pests and predators, harvesting, and packaging and shipping. This book is a must for anyone wanting to go into the worm business,...
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Vermiculture refers to the artificial rearing or cultivation of earthworms for the production of vermicompost to benefit humans. The utility and variability of research work in this field could be of great use to the agricultural community. The book provides the basic concepts of vermitechnology in a manner suited to a broad spectrum of graduates and researchers.
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WARNING: This book may tickle your funny bone.
This practical guide to gardening will help you think organically and sustainably about self-sufficiency. You will learn to do many fun things you never thought possible.
+New techniques and tips
+How to grow fruits and veggies
+Solar energy systems and how to choose wisely
+Seeds and seedlings
+Vermiculture (worms)
+Composting tips and techniques
+Container gardening
+Succulents-beautiful,...
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"Basics and Benefits of Worm Composting" gives you all the information you need to start your own organic worm composting. This is a short book that gives you a quick and practical introduction to vermiculture (worm composting). Learn how you can get high-quality compost from red wigglers / red worms in a short time.Wouldn't it be nice to grow great vegetables and at the same time be able to dispose of your organic waste in an easy way? Develop your...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Why just reuse a bucket when you can reinvent it? The New 5-Gallon Bucket Book updates a quirky classic with 30+ new ways to take those old buckets and put them to use. Five-gallon buckets are ubiquitous and cheap (or even free). They are right up there with some of man's best inventions, like the wheel and sliced bread. Sure, they can be useful on their own, holding stuff or transporting stuff from place to place. But that's no fun. Put them to...
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2013
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English
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"After a very good run as a guidebook for medium-sized vermiculture, Beyond Compost has been updated to include chapters on biochar! Biochar is horticultural charcoal that provides microscopic homes and factories for the microorganisms in vermicompost that you learned about in the first edition. Plus, the carbon that you bury in your soil will stay there for centuries as sequestered carbon removed from the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Plus,...
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