Vermiculture - Vermicomposting, Organic Farming, Resource Management, Sustainability
Slide 1: Red wigglers: Eisenia fetida (top) and Eisenia andrei (bottom)
Slide 2: E. fetida (left) mating with E. andrei (right) and produce unfertile cocoons
Slide 3: Two handful or 2 bowls about ~500 compost worms (about 1 lb of compost worms E. andrei including bedding)
Slide 4: Compost worm cocoons
Slide 5: Vermicompost or worm castings
Slide 6: Life cycle
Slide 7: Strategies
Slide 8: Types of wastes
Slide 9: Methods
Slide 10: Intensive vermiculture - Java
Slide 11: Intensive vermiculture - the Netherlands
Slide 12: Prototype continuous flow digester - small scale
Slide 13: Prototype continuous flow digester - medium scale
Slide 14: Prototype continuous flow digester - indoor
Slide 15: Trial vermicompost on cucumbers - aboveground
Slide 16: Trial vermicompost on cucumbers - belowground
Slide 17: Trial vermicompost teas on "Ruby Streaks" mustard greens
Slide 18: Trial vermicompost teas on seedling of mustard greens
Slide 19: Trial vermicompost on leaf production of mustard greens
Slide 20: Trial vermicompost on flowering of mustard plants
Slide 21: Trial vermicompost on pod/seed production of mustard plants
Slide 22: Trial vermicompost teas on asexual reproduction of roses (soft-hardwood)
Slide 23: Trial vermicompost on sexual reproduction of roses
Slide 24: Trial vermicompost on sexual reproduction of red azalea
Slide 25: Vermicompost for bioremediation of oil contaminated soil - soybeans
Slide 26: Vermicompost for bioremediation of oil contaminated soil - wheats