Jade Vermi Composting Project

Facts about Composting and Organic farming

1. Composting is a key ingredient in Organic farming.
1. We use organic matter like vegetable and fruit peels, plant leaves and stalks, and food waste to create compost. The decayed matter that comes from gives us fertilizer to use in our soil to enrich it with nutrients.

Using chemicals in soil destroys the good micro organisms that help our plants to grow healthily so we opt to use Composting. We're always excited to learn new ways of improving our soil. This blog introduces to you our new skill, learned from a very cool, awesome guy who does Vermi Composting.

We have recently learned about Vermi Composting. 

What is Vermi Compost?

-        This is using earthworms to create nutrient rich organic fertilizers and soil conditioner.

Why use Vermi Compost?

-        It helps improve soil structure.

-        Improves water holding capacity.

-        Enriches soil in micro-organisms

-        Attract deep burrowing earthworms already present in soil

-        It enhances germination, plant grown and crop yield

-        Improving root germination

The soil turns a dark black color that absorbs water readily

Jade Vermi Composting Project

Here at Jade Gardens, we have started our own Vermi Compost project. We want to try out Vermi Composting. We are always learning new techniques to improve our organic farming. We'll share this new experience with you as we learn a new way of improving our soil using Vermi Compost! For the next 60 days, we’re going to log in our progress on our blog. Stay tuned as we embark on our own vermi composting adventure. 

Did you know?

A worm has no arms, legs or eyes.

What we need: 

1. A box to keep our earthworms warm and working through the night. 

2. Some earthworms. We'll go on an earthworm hunt around our farm.

3. A warm dark area to keep our worms.

Next Week:

We'll show you pictures of our set up!

Stay tuned.