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April 2, 2002
Cathy Nesbitt's company, Cathy's Crawly Composters, provides a pound of red wiggler worms, a container with tight-fitting lid and complete instructions on how to start your own home vermiculture business.
Local entrepreneur worms way into vermiculture business
By Roy Green - Staff Writer
Take a pound of worms, feed them lots of rotting fruit and vegetables and other garbage and you wind up with some of the finest, richest black potting soil there is.
It's called vermiculture and it has been around for a long time, but a Bradford woman has put a new twist on a wormy old business - selling small vermiculture kits that can be used by individual homeowners.
Cathy Nesbitt's company, Cathy's Crawly Composters, provides a pound of red wiggler worms, a container with tight-fitting lid and complete instructions on how to start your own home vermiculture business.
"Kept in bins, the worms eat half their own weight in organic waste each day, which not only cuts down on garbage by up to 30 per cent, but they produce rich, black castings, a natural fertilizer," Ms. Nesbitt said.
"You feed them 3-4 pounds per week of waste - coffee grounds, fruit and vegetable peels, tea bags, cooked rice and pasta - but no meat, dairy products or fat," Ms. Nesbitt said. "In about three months' time, you harvest it. For every 100 pounds of waste, they provide five pounds of castings."
Ms. Nesbitt, who is raising red wiggler worms in her basement, said she hopes to develop a worm-farming operation that one day will handle waste from Bradford-area businesses.
"We currently recycle the shredded paper waste from the Bradford Chamber of Commerce and have just begun a one-month trial project using the coffee grounds and filters from the new Country Style location in Bradford."
She will demonstrate her home vermiculture process at East Gwillimbury's Clean Up, Green Up day April 27 at the sports complex in Sharon.
For more information on Ms. Nesbitt's home vermiculture kits, call 905-775-9495.
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