Join us in creating a center for teaching and practicing small-scale, organic agriculture and sustainable living

Vermiculture: Building and Maintaining a Worm Farm

Date: 10/02/2010 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Focuscorp, Inc., 3201 Latham Drive, Madison
Cost: $40.00

You'd like a steady supply of rich composted manure but don't have room for a cow or horse? No problem! In a space no larger than a medium size plastic storage bin, hundreds of red worms will work to turn your kitchen waste into rich worm castings that will greatly enhance your soil. And worm vermicompost doesn't smell, so you can keep a worm farm in your home. In this workshop you will build and learn to maintain a simple, inexpensive and easy to care for worm farm from a plastic storage bin. The workshop fee includes a bin, bedding and worms to get you started. After using this type of worm farm for the past few years, lifelong gardener Allen Pincus has become a vermiculture convert and with his simple worm bin design, you'll become one too!

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Meeting new challenges, transforming lives

Fitchburg Fields is a grassroots, non-profit and for-impact organization in Fitchburg, WI, just south of the capital city of Madison. We have a small garden and a big vision, and we invite you to volunteer, learn, and contribute to our efforts!

What we do

Grow the next generation of organic farmers and gardeners.
Create new jobs in the local food sector.
Create community bonds.

Why we do it

Recession is causing unemployment and hunger.
Peaking oil supplies necessitate a low-fuel food system.
Global climate change necessitates a low-carbon food system.

How we do it

Teach in our garden.
Teach in community kitchens and homes.
Support the community with food and information.

"A Teaching and Sharing Garden"

Our Garden, 4000 sq. ft. of fertility at the SE corner of Lacy Rd. and Fahey Glen in Fitchburg, WI, is a small plot of borrowed land, but we are enthusiastically using it to teach and learn how to create a local food system in the Madison area. (Click here for map.) We hope to "scale up" our experiences when we purchase a 250-acre parcel just 2 miles away – but that will take a lot of help! (Read about our vision, and see the land that could become a center for sustainable agriculture and living by clicking here.)