Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System, 2nd Edition Revised and expanded second edition Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Mary Appelhof Page ID: 0977804518
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“… people … will thank [Appelhof] for showing us … how we can eat better food by growing gardens with wormpower.”–Pete Seeger, folksinger, environmental activist
“You might say that Kalamazoo has become the epicenter of vermiculture (a fancy name for worm composting) …”–Anne Raver, The New York Times
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About the Author
Mary Appelhof was recognized as an international authority and lecturer on small-scale vermicomposting. As owner of Flowerfield Enterprises and Flower Press, she dedicated over 20 years to the research, development, and marketing of products related to the earthworm, such as the Worm-a-way worm bin for which she held both Canadian and USA patents. Mary received many honors including a National Science Foundation grant, was an invited speaker at the Global Assembly of Women and the Environment, and received special merit recognition as one of Renew America’s Environmental Success Stories. Mary also coordinated the international research conference workshop on the Role of Earthworms in the Stablization of Organic Residues and compiled its proceedings. An award-winning photographer, she held master’s degrees in education and biological sciences, and taught high school biology. Mary passed away in 2005.
Paperback: 162 pagesPublisher: Flower Press; Revised and expanded second edition edition (October 6, 2003)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0977804518ISBN-13: 978-0977804511 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #13,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Biology & Life Sciences > Ecology #2 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Gardening & Landscape Design > By Technique > Urban #4 in Books > Children’s Books > Education & Reference > Science Studies > Biology
This is a cute and eccentric, rather dated, oddly organized, and not very scientific guide to vermicomposting. It’s fine on the basics of keeping a worm composter, but much of its advice is easy to misunderstand or understand incompletely due to the lack of good pictures and hands-on, detailed description of specific scenarios. On some issues it is simply wrong. If you really want to understand your worms and the compost ecosystem you’re creating for them, you’ll be better off reading multiple online sources devoted to vermicomposting and talking with people who do it.
"Worms Eat My Garbage," like many guides, provides fine advice as far as it goes; it just doesn’t explain much about *why* you should do this or not do that. It also fails to put the key issues front and center for people new to worm and compost care: how the worms will behave in your vermicomposter if they are healthy or unhealthy, what they need or like and don’t like in their environment and diet, how to understand what you see, and the main ways you can screw up.
I don’t believe the book ever points out that worms live on *microbes* in decomposing organic matter, and they only eat your "garbage" in the process of getting at microbes. Explaining the chemistry of composting and decomposition processes (aerobic and anaerobic) would be really helpful, but that’s not really covered here either. For example, nitrogen and sugars or starches can break down into wet, potentially toxic byproducts like ammonia and alcohols, which are not good for worms in quantity, especially if the worms can’t get away from them. How pH/acidity levels rise and fall is a related concern you won’t learn much about from this book.
Here is an example that is typical of the book’s main flaw.
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