My friend Rhonda Sherman wrote "The Worm Farmer's Handbook". It is a detailed look into the implementations of mid to large-scale vermicomposting for farms, businesses, municipalities, schools and institutions. If you ar...

Steve Churchill is a pilot with Southwest Airlines and he's a worm farmer, or "vermicomposter" in the parlance of the organics recycling industry. This is a brief overview of Steve's adventure as a vermicompost entrepren...

Josh G. and his wife Katie live on their new horse farm near Salt Lake City, Utah along with their two sons, Andrew and Isaack, ages 12 and 14 (at the time of this posting). In April 2020, Josh purchased an O2Compost Ben...

Right Now! Summer is right around the corner and you can take advantage of the good weather to construct your system in plenty of time to be ahead of the fall and winter rainy season. And if you miss this year's dry...

Jack Chambers, a commercial worm grower, recalls the transitions of his worm farm since start-up and explains why this fledgling industry is ready to attain its full potential. "I first learned about earthworms and ver...

We previously discussed the "KISS" Principle for small scale compost systems. This principle also applies to larger municipal scale compost facilities, as exemplified by Green Mountain Compost in Williston, Vermont. Th...

With smaller O2Compost systems, like the one shown below, it is relatively easy to follow the "KISS" principle (Keep it Simple & Systematic). Using a horse farm as an example, you would typically do the following: ...

In 2010, I met Mr. Tom Moreau at the US Composting Council Conference in Austin, Texas. At that time, Tom* was the Director of Chittenden County’s Green Mountain Compost facility in Vermont and after attending my a...

The San Jose Conservation Corps & Charter School is partially funded by the Ameri-Corps program, a voluntary civil service program supported by the U.S. Federal Government with a goal of helping aspiring youth m...

We are continuing to look at different facets of Regenerative Agriculture and how it relates to composting organic "wastes". Here we learn how to improve soil health with rotational grazing. Glenn of Alderspring Ranch in...