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  • From: "Philip Small" <psmall2006@landprofile.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] about vermicomposting in place
  • Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:48:53 -0700

All that is well confirmed. And at some level, disturbing.

I introduced red wigglers and nightcrawlers (both non-native) into my leaf/kitchen scrap compost when I inoculated the compost with soil from my backyard.  The worms are probably from a previous occupant's worm compost and discarded fishing bait.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Kate Moran <katemmoran@yahoo.com> wrote:
What I learned in a vermicomposting workshop here in Madison, WI, is that the worms we use in vermicomposting are usually red wigglers, which is an invasive worm species.  There fast reproduction and conversion of food to compost actually causes them to crowd out native more genetically varied worms.
 
That the forest floors in the US are now much thinner than before, because of non-indigenous worms.
 
I have also heard of people worm farming with worms dug from outside in their yard....
 
Has anyone else heard this? 

Kate






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