Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Smittyctz6 <cityhomesteader@gmail.com>]

This is still so ridiculous!!  There are so many more things that we do every day to the environment that this just seems so asinine!  I live with Acid Rain, and watch as huge double trailered trucks spew forth black soot into the sky and jets leave trails of fumes across a deep blue sky. People trash the land with plastic garbage while filling their faces with foods from far away lands and drink beverages made with High fructose corn syrup from corn grown on lands so over worked that the soil blows away in the wind. While more and more Forest are cut down to build more and more Brand new homes and people pop out babies like rabbits. And we are talking about worms like it is all their fault!  How utterly laughable!
Can we get back on a topic where I can continue to learn how to fix my screw ups and save whats left of my small bit of earth? Maybe grow some of my own food?  Learn about local places to by meats not grown in factory farms, or even some sensible Vegetarian alternatives!!??

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Terry Wereb <frostedacres@gmail.com> wrote:

i think you have all hit  on points within the article-- the Holden Arboretum is watching several spots where the  wooded areas have suddenly become bare-- and yes, an area covered in worm castings, devoid of plant life...unsettling, to say the least.
 My small box of worms seems to have died--victims of cold, as I had not insulated the box, and it was quite exposed when we had hard frosts three days in a row. I put a bunch of rabbit manure, oak leaves, and ground corn cob into a large trash can yesterday, added some
fresh' green matter, as well, and to help with bacterial action, poured in about 1/2 gallon of water that had been standing in a drainage swale. I wiIl probably  turn over some boards today and add any worms I find under them to the can. I am thinking the larger volume of the can, plus it's placement in the sun, will permit the worms to do some work over the winter.
 It is hard to believe that earthworms could be considered dangerous to an ecosystem, but then lately, not much is surprising me...  am wondering, though, how a person who is trying to live as inexpensively as possible, using as little electric as possible, can possibly freeze the volumes of worm composted materials that they would use in order to effectively take advantage of the final product..

 Terry W
Frosted acres

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