Transcription of Manual on Vermiculture and Vermicomposting
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Manual of On-Farm Vermicomposting and Vermiculture By Glenn Munroe Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada Acknowledgements EcoAction Program of Environment Canada and New Ground Vermicomposting , Halifax, Nova Scotia Jennifer Scott, Centre Burlington, Nova Scotia Kipawo Holsteins, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia Holdanca Farms Ltd., Wallace, Nova Scotia Table of Contents 1 Introduction: Vermiculture and The Difference between Vermiculture and The compost Why Bother? An Overview of Potential Benefits and What this Manual Can Do for 2 Working with Worms: The What Worms The Five Worm 10 10 Temperature 10 Other Important Parameters .. 11 Calculating Rates of 12 Projecting Vermicompost 14 Pests and 15 3 An Overview of Vermicomposting 17 Basic Types of 17 17 Static pile windrows (batch).
1.2 The Compost Worm . There are an estimated 1800 species of earthworm worldwide (Edwards & Lofty, 1972). This manual will focus on just one. Eisenia fetida (Savigny) is commonly known as (partial list only): the “compost worm”, “manure …
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