About Earthworms:The lowly earthworm deserves a lot of respect.
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Earthworms are invertebrates from a group of annelids, or segmented worms. They are found around the world in terrestrial environments. Their natural habitat varies greatly - from fields and forests to cities and farms.
Worms have voracious appetites for dead or processed organic materials and are attracted to waste concentrations such as manure piles, heaps of refuse and rotting vegetation. Earthworms are known to consume and excrete their body weight in a single day. This excretion is known as "castings" (worm poop).
Learned scientists, agricultural experts, soil culturists, and horticulturists all agree - the earthworm is of immeasurable importance to the soil for maximizing plant growth and production, and for soil conservation.
The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, called the earthworm "the intestines of the earth". Charles Darwin, who studied the earthworm extensively for over 35 years, expressed his feelings this way:
"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures."
And here's another quote by Darwin where he is referring to the earthworm's natural ability to assimilate waste and build topsoil:
"When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we would remember that its smoothness, on which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould (i.e. topsoil) over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass every few years, through the bodies of earthworms."
The whole world is beginning to embrace this ecologically safe method of using worms to consume organic waste and convert it into an extremely environmentally beneficial product (worm compost). Incredible, 1,000 earthworms and their dependents can, in one year, convert approximately one ton of organic waste into worm castings: one of the highest yield fertilizers on earth.
Click here to learn about the redworm, or red wiggler, earth's Master Composter.
Worms have voracious appetites for dead or processed organic materials and are attracted to waste concentrations such as manure piles, heaps of refuse and rotting vegetation. Earthworms are known to consume and excrete their body weight in a single day. This excretion is known as "castings" (worm poop).
Learned scientists, agricultural experts, soil culturists, and horticulturists all agree - the earthworm is of immeasurable importance to the soil for maximizing plant growth and production, and for soil conservation.
The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, called the earthworm "the intestines of the earth". Charles Darwin, who studied the earthworm extensively for over 35 years, expressed his feelings this way:
"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures."
And here's another quote by Darwin where he is referring to the earthworm's natural ability to assimilate waste and build topsoil:
"When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we would remember that its smoothness, on which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould (i.e. topsoil) over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass every few years, through the bodies of earthworms."
The whole world is beginning to embrace this ecologically safe method of using worms to consume organic waste and convert it into an extremely environmentally beneficial product (worm compost). Incredible, 1,000 earthworms and their dependents can, in one year, convert approximately one ton of organic waste into worm castings: one of the highest yield fertilizers on earth.
Click here to learn about the redworm, or red wiggler, earth's Master Composter.