Post on 18-Oct-2020
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VERMI=WORM
VERMICOMPOSTING=WORM COMPOSTING
Red Wiggler WormsMembers of Family 1: The Experimental Wigglers
$55 from NYC Compost
Not sustainable
Flies & Smell
No drainage
Worms escaped! (R.I.P)
Layers, or stacking are ideal
(Thanks Peter )
Drainage
Minimal escape routes
Opaque
Outdoor Vermicomposting Systems
This matters
Image taken from
childrenoftheearth.org
SOIL
MATTERS
SOIL IS
MATTER
\A few inconvenient truths:Soil is being eroded and polluted rapidly
(which releases carbon dioxide into air)
Soil sustains all life
(in one handful of soil, there are more microorganisms than humans on earth)
Good soil means strong, abundant plants
Plants absorb carbon dioxide in atmosphere
95% of the soil used by humans grows our food, and about 30% of that food is wasted annually
A few worm wonders: Plants fertilized by vermicomposted soil grow incredibly strong and resilient
Worms love to eat the food that we don’t, and they will turn it into more soil to grow more!
Worms have been, and hopefully always will be on earth creating soil and improving quality of life, simply by eating and pooping.
Climate change is real, and at this point cannot be reversed. But it can be absorbed and recycled!
The worms are the way to sustainability.
More worms=more soil=more plant life=less carbon in air and more nutrients & water in soil!
Wormagic.
Does anybody care?
I care, and that matters.
My bin system on a commercial level: Not quite there yet
With the right balance of marketing, engineering, capital, and sustainable production- one day every New Yorker could have an Urban Worm Composting System (UWCS) in their home.
And full of people who love worms.
I dream of a future full of worms.
Thank you so incredibly deeply toPeter Terezakis- for supporting and inspiring, for teaching and supplying me with the tools to begin my worm world.
Madison Love- for the song and for supporting the worms from the start.
Alessandra Mesa- for support and advice.
Rachel Davis- for being the worm’s favorite aunt and spoiling them with all your amazing food scraps.
NYU Tandon & NYU Tisch- for showing me that I can
Mel! Epstein- for branding help and introducing me to myself, the worm lady.
Kyle Richard-for photography
The worms- for showing me the truth and the beauty that is vermiculture
Thank you all,
-The Worm Lady
Here’s to a future of
global worming.