The concerns for the environment aired by so many are a lot of noise.   However,  there seems to be no real action under way.   It appears to be all talk and published worry.   We have to start somewhere.   And why don’t we do that soonest?

Although I have not documented my studies, I have had a lot of readings and researches on the culture of earthworms which include the vermi-meal, the castings and this crawling animal being a very effective recycling agent. 

The use of the meat of the worm or the worm itself for animal feed is simple logic.   It is a fact, even if we do not consider science, that one natural food of fish and birds is the earthworm.  That is why we say that the early bird catches the worm.   We also see drawings, pictures, writings and other materials with the theme of the fish eating the worm or being made a bait in the hook for the catch.   These facts can justify a feasibility that we can do away with all the commercial chemical feeds for the chicken in the poultry and for the fish in our ponds.  Under these processes, we cut back on the two major pollutants to the environment.

In Florida, there is an ongoing vermi-compositng project aimed at working hand in hand with solid waste management.

Upon the other hand, the castings are good sources of organic fertilizers.    An haciendero (sugar farm owner or manager or businessman) in Negros (Philippines) fertilizes his sugar farm with 80% earthworm castings and with only a 20% mix of inorganic commercial fertilizer.   His farm size is about 500 acres.

We do not have to be so high profile aiming to fix the polar caps meltdown to help save mother earth.   We can  simply begin our home-based earthworm project instead.   Total cost of a starter set is only about 50 US dollars each.   Let us act and let us act now.

Until my next article on the subject matter.