Grandmother’s garden is often the first place that children learn about the benefit of having worms in the soil. They learn from an early age that you don’t throw worms away, you put them back into the ground where you found them, says Mike Launer of Annelida Soil Solutions.
Annelida has created a business out of using over 100 million worms to convert composting material and turn it into beneficial nutrients that plants respond well to, says Launer in this interview from Crop Production Show in Saskatoon, SK.
The company takes over 100,000 pounds of green waste every week from the local food bank and grocery stores, feeding it to the worms to create a product from the castings that can be applied to gardens and then through a shelf-stable liquid or granules, to large scale crops as well, says Launer.
As Launer opens a jar of castings he says, “[it] looks like… dry coffee grounds, and there’s more biology on the end of my finger here than there are people on Earth… this is really like probiotics for your soil.”
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