START YOUR OWN WORM FARM (spring 2015)

     Hometown News Atlanta heard about the Ga Wigglers Worm Farm from a business card left by Dennis Holman in the Ansley area of Midtown. 

     The biggest question might be why was a worm farmer trying to get worm business in the big city?

     Green Atlantans are familiar with composting and all of the benefits.  Part of the process is understanding Vermiculture and the process of Vermicomposting. 

     Tons of food wastes are recycled by the Ga Wigglers Worm Farm using 'red wigglers', a worm which grows to be about the length of a cell phone.  

     When the 'reds' gather together in the Compost pile...they devour everything in their path.

     
     The Ga Wigglers Worm Farm sells the 'red wigglers' to Atlantans, hoping they will begin a composting program.

     There are many beneficial by-products of this type of farming, one of the biggest being 'worm castings'.   The wastes left behind by the 'reds' are consistently rich in  phosphates and nitrogen.  This makes for the best plant growing soil, anywhere.
 

     Another by-product is Worm Tea.  This isn't stuff you drink, but your plants will love it.  It's complicated in process, but let's just imagine a vaporizer spraying your plants with a substance that will not only prove healthy, it protects them from harmful insects.

     There are Worm Composting starter kits and the whole process is best explained by the Ga Wigglers Worm Farm Owner, Dennis Holman, who invited readers of Hometown News Atlanta to explore their web site and consider the benefits of worms and a composting program.

     At the rate they eat garbage, those 'red wigglers' are not just good for the soil, they are good for the planet.

     Ga Wigglers Web Site

---Ray Macon