Earthworms in permaculture
In
a permaculture situation, worms have other uses beyond soil
health. The best example comes from Harvey Ussery, who has built massive
worm bins in his greenhouse. He uses the worms to create
compost and also harvests the worms as a high protein treat for his
chickens. Maybe someday we'll have that many worms!
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Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I'm really enjoying your blog.
I need more earthworms at my place. I know I can encourage more to come in but I would like to speed things up a bit. Do you know of anyone who supplies earthworms native to southwestern Virginia commercially ?