What are worm castings? A detailed look at our vermicomposting process!

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Welcome to our vermicompost (worm poop) farm! We are excited to take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of our small operation, where we transform organic waste into nutrient-rich worm castings. Discover the fascinating process of vermicomposting and learn how it benefits soil health, plant growth, and our environment. If you want to learn more about what we do visit us online at backtoearthworks.com
We began vermicomposting about 6 years ago with a goal to reduce food waste in our landfills and have since grown and adjusted our operation as we started doing urban landscaping applications for our city of Fort Wayne, IN. Through this service derived our 'regenerative gardening kit' which focuses heavily on reintroducing vital biology that your garden and landscape plants love. Remember that biology in the soil works directly with plants and their roots to help process nutrients for the plants. We are supporting this ecosystem with a goal of reducing and limiting chemical inputs which have shown to harm our environment. Increasing water absorption and reducing runoff, offering naturally resistances to plants, and much more.
Our kit is crafted specifically for homesteaders and those who want to grow more nutritious plants naturally! Contact us if you have any questions or leave a comment below!

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@DrewCreate 2 месяца назад

I have been gearing up to start a worm farm and doing research on all the different parts from production to marketing / product line. I’ve had a vision for it and it didn’t seem like anyone else was doing what I was imagining from product line to labeling/marketing. Then I found this video and looked at your site and realized I’ve been copying you in my head without knowing it. Much respect you’re doing a fantastic job and the site looks amazing. I even drew a rough draft of my logo and had “nurture soil naturally” dang… lol.

@BackToEarthWorks Месяц назад

@@DrewCreate hey we love it! We are really focusing on natural amendments and the kit seemed like a great idea as we’ve been doing it as a service in our city! We work with them now to provide our worm castings when they transplant trees to increase survivability. Reach out if you have any questions, cheers

@utvc3687 2 месяца назад

Great work and good luck in business

@washibonsai5307 2 месяца назад

Great content 💪🏻 I am starting my journey with worms in the desert of Dubai soon. Your video is very informative and inspiring for me. Thank you for your work spent preparing this video! Martin

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

@@washibonsai5307 that is super interesting, we’d love to chat/help if you have any questions! We saw you grow bonsai trees, are you going to be making vermicompost for the trees specifically? We do different mixes in terms of what we feed our worms depending on destination and plant requirements/needs!

@washibonsai5307 2 месяца назад

@@BackToEarthWorks yes I would love to chat with you. Bonsai are one of my projects, permaculture design is another. Will message you ❤️🐪

@NanasWorms 2 месяца назад

Hi there, I really enjoyed your video. It was Jan packed with information I can use as a domestic worm farmer. New subscriber! ~ Sandra

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

@@NanasWorms hey Nana, thank you so much for taking the time to not only watch, but to leave a lovely comment as well!

@AJsGreenTopics 2 месяца назад

You have a nice worm system up and running.

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

Thanks for checking us out!

@homebuddha 15 дней назад

Wow what a scientific rush! that was insane!!! I really loved this. Subbed! Sorted

@dnawormcastings 3 месяца назад

Love your worm set up 🇳🇿🪱

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

Oh my gosh thanks so much for checking us out!

@hobbyplans 3 месяца назад

Thank you such an informative explanation this one video saves watching 100s to get the amount of information. My father and grandfather farmed in this way naturally with cow manure worms and fertile soil and over the years this has declined to dry cracked hard soil. Good luck for the future.

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

We were actually at a regenerative farm a few weeks ago and they farmed next to a 'traditional' farm and the differences were night and day

@projectoldman3383 3 месяца назад

Awesome man, looks like you got the right idea. I wish you great success.

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much!

@Soilfoodwebwarrior 2 месяца назад

Fascinating stuff, are you yourself a fellow soilfoodweb school graduate? You seem very well versed in soilfoodweb concepts. I am lucky enough to live in Southern California near the coast and can worm farm year round outside. My red wigglers heard has grown quite large after doing this for about 4 years. Good show 👏👍, cheers

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

We definitely took Elaine's course and we were at a conference a few weeks ago where we got to chat with Liz Haney a bunch which was awesome

@flatsville9343 3 месяца назад

Please tell us more about your climate controlled sections. Keeping red wiggler worm active over winter at scale is a problem for those of us who regularly get below 40F (which is where worm death begins.) How are you heating those over winter areas?

@nicksorg170 2 месяца назад

We try to keep the climate control simple. Just a space heater plugged into a timer plug that sits inbetween two of the worm bin stacks. We set the timer to run the heater generally for an hour every other hour and that typically keeps it about 60 degrees F inside the climate control room.

@flatsville9343 2 месяца назад

@nicksorg170 So, essentially you build a shell/frame to accommodate a stack of bins 3 high & 2 wide, then skin it with reflective foam board? If you could tell us more about dimensions & materials, that would help...Also brand & wattage of heater. (I did something like this with a Johnson-Su Bioreactor, but lost it to freezing when an ice storm took out power for 3 days. No back-up power. A JSB is essentially a big stand-up worm bin. RIP worms. 😭)

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

@@flatsville9343 I'll make sure he sees this and gets back to you

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

You got it right, lumber frame with reflective foam boards, the thicker the better, seal them with insulating tape. Dimensions can be whatever you need them to be. If our power ever went out that would be a problem, never thought of that haha. Guess we'll have to get a generator in case. As for the heater I don't have specifics on brand or wattage. Whatever the most efficient electric heater you can get from a Menards or big box store will do the trick. The worm bins do a good job of capturing the introduced heat from the space heater. Just make sure it is sized appropriately for your climate control room.

@Stickyherb420 2 месяца назад

How do you make your BioChar? -Thanks

@JamPowe-w8c 2 месяца назад

this is great ill have to build myself some stacked bins i dont own equipment tho but it triples his sq footage

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

It definitely helps to be able to store moving up, we use less space for the temp controlled rooms, which means less equipment goes into maintaining the temp, less spending overall

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

I've heard of people building racks that they can slide totes in and out for handling by hand. Same concept smaller size

@NorthFLWormWorks Месяц назад

Do you think using the foliage spray as a nitrogen booster is better that way than adding coffee grounds, due to the worms processing the carbon fast and then not having to stress as much with the balance of the nitrogen/carbon ratio as you would if both were in solid mass forms? Sorry if that doesn’t make any sense; basically is one being a spray made a noticeable difference in breaking down of materials? Thanks for you tour and any time answering!! 🤙

@TripleHFarm_hobbyFarm 3 месяца назад

Great video great information. You may be new to RU-vid, but it’s evident you’re not new to Verma composting and the science behind it. How does one get his hands on some of your product?

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

Hey there you can visit us online it's our (brand name) dot com. We sell two sizes of vermicompost bags at the moment but we are mostly focused on our regenerative kit, our vermicompost is just a portion of that!

@shawncarr8699 2 месяца назад

would you mind sharing where you get your testing done? im looking to get my castings tested.

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

We are in Indiana and we use a soil scientist up in Michigan I believe (I'm just the marketing side of our company so I can't say for sure) If you want to shoot us an email (ourbrandname)@gmail we can forward you her information

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

Here is a link for testing. She does a great job, knows her stuff well, and is reasonably priced compared with others. pottfarms.com/products/soil-biology-testing

@blaablaahi 2 месяца назад

Would you be a soil nerd or soil hippie ?

@lettucesalad3560 2 месяца назад

Maybe food scraps from restaurants or grocery store would be me ecological than fish emulsion.

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

We were doing this, we had a connection to a some local restaurants and were collecting food scraps, unfortunately a lot of food that comes out of restaurants is super processed, it took a lot of time and effort to gather scraps every week, and we didn't see as good of results as when we adjusted our feed mix

@dribblingdrooler3616 2 месяца назад

Fish emulsion is different from hydrolosate, or however it's spelled

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

@@dribblingdrooler3616 Correct! Fish hydrolysate is a liquid made from fish parts, like heads and bones, that are left over after processing. The parts are ground up and broken down using natural enzymes, which turn the fish proteins into smaller pieces. This resulting liquid is typically very rich in nutrients like proteins, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals

@dribblingdrooler3616 2 месяца назад

@BackToEarthWorks right on! I use leaf mold from my woods to help with the process. I fully enjoyed your video and had to subscribe. Thanks for the knowledge.

@johnohearn1216 2 месяца назад

Do the hay seed from the horse manure die? I thought they’d have to go through a thermophilic compost.

@Soilfoodwebwarrior 2 месяца назад

If you let it age as he was doing then run it through the worms very little seeds will make it. When I used to use horse manure in my process I did thermophilic compost it first to destroy weed seeds and to kill potential pathogens. I had to stop using horse manure because much of the local feed stock are tainted with persistent herbicide which does not break down in a compost pile fast enough. I really like his process here, not enough vermicomposting is done with leaves on youtube. Leaves are gold ✨️💛👌

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

@@Soilfoodwebwarrior we are hoping to source from regenerative farms in the future but we use a local farmer who really takes care of his animals and sources his feed from other locals. We had an incredible trip to a regenerative farm recently and it opened our eyes. We are always learning, growing, and adjusting what we do and we are excited to see so many awesome comments and responses from the community we are hoping to build as well! Thanks for taking the time to reply!

@BackToEarthWorks 2 месяца назад

@@Soilfoodwebwarrior bingo baby