We’ve got worms!

Our worms are rejuvenated and repopulated. Ready to compost your food and paper waste indoors? Then meet us at the City Market this Saturday, July 18th and we’ll help you get started.

Plenty of bokashi and worm castings will be on hand as well! See you there.

Growing Power grows the movement

If you’re hungry for more information on urban farming, check out this article from the NY Times. Will Allen’s Growing Power urban farm in Milwaukee does it all.

Urban beekeeping? check.

Tilapia and watercress that sustain one another via aquaponics? check.

Composting with worms? double check.

“When you’re producing a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of food in such a small space, soil fertility is everything. Without microbe- and nutrient-rich worm castings (poop, that is), Allen’s Growing Power farm couldn’t provide healthful food to 10,000 urbanites.”

And what’s most inspiring about this farm—and many urban farms for that matter—is shifting the imbalance of where fresh, nutritious food is accessible and affordable. Because if the nearest place to purchase an organic, reasonably priced tomato is a 2 hr commute by bus……that fast food joint on the corner is going to be awfully appealing. Allen even considers this common urban development practice a form of redlining. And we agree.

So if you had an opportunity to tour Kansas City’s urban farms recently, be sure that your interest and support doesn’t stop there. Ask how you can get more involved. Sign up for a CSA membership if you haven’t already. Or learn about how to grow your own!

Recuperation!

Thank you for your interest in the green worm. In fact, there’s been so much interest that our red wigglers need a break—some time to relax and re-populate! We will not be at the City Market this Saturday, but will return with revived worms, worm bins, and composting solutions on Saturday, July 18th.

In the meantime, you can call Eric at 913.706.3674 to arrange a time for pick up at our urban farm in Waldo.  Thanks to everyone who participated in the Urban Farms and Gardens Tour last Sunday! We were stationed out at BADSEED Farm, and by all accounts it was a wildly successful day. You can find some photos here and here.

Thank you and happy worming!

Get in touch with your inner-farmer!

Kansas City’s Urban Farms & Garden Tour is upon us! Farmers and gardeners all over the city have been busy in the dirt and look forward to showing you the ropes this weekend. the green wormers will be on hand at BADSEED Farm in south KC this Sunday, June 28th from 11am to 5pm at 1201 E. Bannister, KCMO.

Pre-tour events are going on now through Sunday. You can find Eric from the green worm at the Waldo Branch of KCMO Libraries this Thursday, June 25th at 2pm (75th and Grand Ave. KCMO). He’ll be there to teach kids how Worms Eat our Trash.

Don’t miss out–hope to see you on the tour!

Unlikely (but really fun!) party guests

A little worn out on the traditional plasticware demo parties? All stocked up cosmetics and candles? Then why not host your very own Home Composting Party?

Gather at least 4 of your friends and the green worm will provide a brief presentation, demonstrate the set-up/maintenance/harvesting of a worm composting bin, and have guests ready to go home with a bin of their very own!

What a fun excuse to host a summer get-together! And we promise the worms won’t hog all the cheese dip.

For more info send us an email (thegreenwormkc@gmail.com) or call 913.706.3674.

Show mom you care: buy her some worm poop.

This Mother’s Day there is no better way to let her know she matters—than by giving her organic matter that has been recycled by worms. Our happy worm castings (aka worm poop) are a nutrient-rich, natural fertilizer and soil conditioner for your garden, lawn and potted plants. Castings can be used as top dressing on outdoor plants and lawns or as potting soil. Worm castings restore soil by improving its structure, enriching with beneficial micro-organisms, and improving water retention.

Pick some up—along with our worm kits, bokashi, and compost “tea”—this Saturday, May 9th at City Market.

You can thank us later for getting you back on Mom’s good side.

Happy Earth Day!

Not that we can’t do green things every day, but what a wonderful excuse to learn about a new way to live more sustainably!

And while we’re on the topic, do you ever want to learn more about how worms actually eat our trash? Or how some people use funky wheat bran to pickle their leftovers? Do you wake up in a cold sweat with thoughts of 7th grade, trying to recall the difference between aerobic and anaerobic processes??

Then consider inviting the green wormers out to your school or community event for a presentation or workshop. Find out more by clicking on the Education Info Sheet on the right hand side of this page!

Rev up your compost pile….

….with happy bacteria!

I am convinced that the weather is really going to warm up this week and actually stay that way. And more tolerable weather means dealing with a (sometimes) intolerable outdoor compost pile. One that has likely been stagnant all winter, am I right?

A simple solution to an idle pile is to add some bokashi–or femented wheat bran–to it. Our bokashi is loaded with beneficial bacteria—the kind that will “jump start” your compost pile and attract all kinds of earth worms. More worms in your pile means speedier composting!

Our bokashi can be directly added to your outdoor compost pile, or first used to “pickle” some food scraps and then added to the pile. This additional step increases the benefit. Check out this video to learn more.

Hope to see you this Saturday at City Market!

Off and Worming!

Thanks to everyone who made it out to Green Drinks–it was a great evening of socializing and learning about composting!

Here’s Eric talking with folks at Green Drinks about home composting solutions.

Next up this Saturday is the Eat Local Farmers Expo! This event is sponsored by the Kansas City Food Circle and features dozens of local farmers growing healthy foods and utilizing natural processes. the green worm will be on hand with soil enriching products to help you grow your own healthy food. For a great article about veggie gardening with specifics on when to plant what for our region, check out this recent article from the Wichita Eagle.

Hope to see you Saturday!

Welcome Spring!!

Well it may not be official, but boy are we excited about the warmer weather and longer hours of light in the evening! Our worms may not be so happy about the light (they tend to avoid it), but the increase in temperature as encouraged them to be more active—-the amount of food and paper scraps they consume has really picked up the last few days.

This season we plan to continue our presence at the City Market and other community events. We’d also like to respond to more requests for educational presentations related to composting with worms. So be sure to check our schedule as we add more events over the next couple weeks.

And to get the season started off right, come on out to Green Drinks KC this Thursday, March 19th at Californo’s in Westport. Green Drinks provides a monthly forum for like-minded green folks to network and learn about innovative green solutions. This month’s meet up will include a presentation by Missouri Organic which will cover composting on a large scale. Eric from the green worm will then discuss composting with worms on a household scale. Hope to see you there!