Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make compost by providing organic waste as a food source to earthworms and then collecting their excrement.
- noun Compost created in this manner.
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- verb To employ worms to
break down organic waste intosoil orhumus - noun the product of worm composting; worm
castings
Etymologies
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Examples
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The resulting product, called vermicompost (VC), or worm castings, provides commercial and amateur growers an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional substrate additives for producing many varieties of container-grown plants.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The resulting product, called vermicompost (VC), or worm castings, provides commercial and amateur growers an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional substrate additives for producing many varieties of container-grown plants.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The worms eat the sludge, digest it, and turn it into vermicompost which is clean enough to use on farms fields as well as home gardens.
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It would implement waste management technologies such as vermicompost, backyard farming, community toilet with bio-gas plant for degradable solid wastes in these villages.
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It would implement waste management technologies such as vermicompost, backyard farming, community toilet with bio-gas plant for degradable solid wastes in these villages.
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There are many resources describing the options for home composting -- these range from backyard bins to vermicompost worm bins, and can be tailored to fit your needs.
Allen Hershkowitz: How to Manage Food Waste Allen Hershkowitz 2011
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There are many resources describing the options for home composting -- these range from backyard bins to vermicompost worm bins, and can be tailored to fit your needs.
Allen Hershkowitz: How to Manage Food Waste Allen Hershkowitz 2011
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She designed and currently manages a large scale, closed-loop vermicompost project at a downtown homeless shelter where cafeteria food waste becomes 4 tons of worm castings a year which in turn is used as the soil that grows food to return to the cafeteria.
Boing Boing 2009
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There are many resources describing the options for home composting -- these range from backyard bins to vermicompost worm bins, and can be tailored to fit your needs.
Allen Hershkowitz: How to Manage Food Waste Allen Hershkowitz 2011
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There are many resources describing the options for home composting -- these range from backyard bins to vermicompost worm bins, and can be tailored to fit your needs.
Allen Hershkowitz: How to Manage Food Waste Allen Hershkowitz 2011
hernesheir commented on the word vermicompost
"Tis our destiny.
October 25, 2011
bilby commented on the word vermicompost
Maybe. There have been a couple of reports of a crocodile sighted around the creek mouth which lies across the road. I noticed yesterday while out riding my bike that the rangers have placed a large crocodile trap in Rapid Creek. My survival strategy therefore appears to rely on said cage and on not resembling alternative crocbait while out on an evening jog. I fear I very much resemble crocbait.
But it's at least some comfort to know that if I turn up on Wordie a little worse for wear one day that sionnach will rename me Stumpy and take me to the vet.
October 26, 2011