PDC LESSON 7.20 WORM FARMING


PERMACULTURE COURSE

AGRO-ECONOMY PDC LESSON 7.20

WORM FARMING

 

Worm farming

Putting manure (and humanure) through the worm farm is another excellent way of dealing with manure, and worm castings are also a colloid just as the compost is. If you don’t have easy access to manure, you’d do well to have a compost toilet. Humanure is an asset that should not be left outside the cycle of sustainable gardening. How wonderful it would be if everyone would recycle all their waste. Waste is not really a waste product but a valuable resource. When we are actively recycling all organic waste through the compost and then by way of the garden nourish the food that we eat; this is truly sustainable agriculture. How we would build up the fertility in our gardens if everyone cycled all their nutrients.

 

Humanure

is best put through compost worm farms where all the pathogens are in due time totally broken down and be made into rich humus ready to start the whole process over again. 

 

Unfortunately, the possibility of this happening is still rather remote as most people still have septic or sewerage systems. That is something that must change as well. Gardening successfully without manure does become more difficult as it is the life force in the manures that constantly keep on introducing new microbes into the soil. The microbes, fungi, yeasts, enzymes, and a myriad of other organisms are the active digestive system of the soil. These continuously release food for the plants through the digestive processes and excrement of these same organisms. This is how we arrive at a chain of events that bring life and death constantly throughout the soil.

 

Fertility and decay are two sides of the same coin. Manure is such a wonderful source of microbes to feed on the organic matter that you add to the soil that they are simply made for each other.  Can you see the connection now?




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