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Worm Waste Used To Improve Gardens
Posted at 01:38 PM on January 29, 2008 comments (0)
By KXAS NBC5
A man in Silver Spring, Md., has started a company called Global Worming Worm Tea so people can have a healthy garden in a world that's Going Green. Many people don't know that their garden's best friend is a worm. Simply by eating and excreting, worms create dirt that is full of natural fertilizers and nutrients.
The Global Worming Worm Tea factory is three wooden boxes in Chip Py's basement. The employees are 36,000 red wiggler worms who work for food, specifically Py's garbage.
Py buries his waste in the soil and puts the worms on top of it and they go to town. The garbage goes into one end of the worm and what comes out of the other end is incredibly rich dirt called worm castings.
Py then takes the dirt and puts it in a cheesecloth bag.
"It becomes like a giant tea bag, and I put it in my bio-blender and mix it with distilled water," said Py.
For 24 hours the blender forces the water through the tea bag, producing an incredibly concentrated worm broth.
Py bottles that broth and sells it as Global Worming Worm Tea, which he said could be used as a fertilizer and insect repellent.
Py is hoping his worms will show people there's a natural way to a beautiful landscape. Global Worming Worm Tea is sold at four locations in the Washington area and online.
Because the product is so unusual, Py often appears himself to explain how it works.
KXAS NBC5 - Dallas/Fort Worth
http://nbc5i.com/goinggreen/11441069/detail.html
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