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27 June 2011
Dave Krick, owner of the Red Feather Lounge and Bittercreek Ale House in Boise, Idaho, in 2010 digging for worms in compost used for purposes such as filling the restaurant's outdoor planters
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
What can you do with earthworms? Some people use the creepy crawlers to catch fish. But others put worms to work making compost. Compost looks and feels like good soil. Gardeners and farmers add it to soil to make plants grow better.
You can make compost from food waste at home with or without the help of worms. How the worms help is by first eating and processing the food. It comes out the other end of the worm as rich compost.
Tiny Vermont red wrigglers
Kim Gabel from the University of Florida Extension service in Key West suggests using red worms known as red wigglers.
KIM GABEL: "The red wigglers are the best varieties for doing it because they are more of a surface feeder. Because different worms live in different strata, or portions of the earth."
You need a container to hold the waste and the worms. The size of the composting bin depends on how much compost you want to make. You need about a kilogram of worms for each half a kilogram of daily food waste that you add.
Kim Gabel says the bin needs holes so the worms can get air.
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