Worm Farm - The Organic Rose

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6 жыл бұрын

How do you get millions of worms to work for free? Chef Steve Rose visits with his long time friend Jack Chambers to discuss the benefits of using soil amendments. A local trip to the Sonoma Valley Worm Farm shows us the process of creating soil enriching Vermicompost. #worm #worms #wormcastings #wormfarming #wormfarm #compost #compostmaking #vermicompost #vermicomposting #sonoma #sonomavalley #sonomacounty
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@snackymcgoo1539 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know this "Rose" guy. But everyone, ESPECIALLY members of the media, stand to learn a lot from him. Ask a question, and let the professional / expert you are speaking to convey complete thoughts. This was very nice to watch.

@SunshineCountryChickens 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciated how he quietly took in the information being shared without a constant nod or interjecting words or sounds at all. Very refreshing. I bet he has a vast knowledge of many things because he knows how to listen

@bobcat9314 2 жыл бұрын

I'm new to this , and I love your content.. The products at the grocery stores is not good for human consumption .. I can't live off over priced / withered fruit and vegetables with very little nutrients left in them I love your story of how it all started... The universe had you right where you were needed.. isnt that amazing how things in life unfold ..

@joebaldenweg 5 жыл бұрын

Flat out impressive work you are doing. We need people to understand and accept this concept and keep moving forward.

@dlou3264 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the video. This is a truly important thing . . . To build the soil and grow good food. A truly important way of life.

@small-timegarden 5 жыл бұрын

Excited to see such volume

@torrencekrepps757 3 жыл бұрын

I truly love how he spoke about everything completed comes and filters out from the bottom how are these worm beds made to keep the flow rotate out from the bottom I think that it's a great idea just wish to learn more about this

@ChrisBrewster 5 жыл бұрын

Good interview and great insight

@eddieleong6490 4 жыл бұрын

I have 300 hectare project site in Tunisia...semi-arid, probably less arid than Sonoma Valley. I will start my earthworm farm to generate vermi-compost to revitalise the land. I have the Water Technology (Freezing Water Deslination) and we are right next to the sea. Water, land and worms. Sunlight and air are free. Te worms work for free. Plenty of feedstock free too.

@steverose854 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderfull Eddie. Best of luck with your project! I would love to come and visit your worm farm sometime. I wish you much success. My mentor for worm farming is Jack Chambers in Sonoma as seen in the video.

@thegreenviking1422 6 жыл бұрын

Just watched this Video with much interest. I am a worm Farmer from South Africa and it makes me very happy to see that you guys have such a mature customer base over there for the vermi-products. I love your channel and am learning from you also on how to better prepare and enjoy our organic fruits and foods. Thank you for sharing. I can say this, Jack is not spinning tales over there... We have tested vermicompost and extracts and we have the same amazing results as he claims over here and even better in places. There is no better Soil-healer in nature than Vermicompost/castings

@katefulton3932 Жыл бұрын

Love his story!

@gioknows 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing! Cheers from Ottawa, Canada 🍁

@daughterofafrica 4 ай бұрын

Awesome insights and thanks for sharing.May God bless the work of your hands .

@Horse237 5 жыл бұрын

I would add rock salt and some kelp meal for minerals. I would add coffee grounds to make chelated nitrogen to match the chelated minerals from the rock salt. (Chelated meaning bound to an amino acid which the plant can uptake.) If you feed worms bone meal or egg shells, the worms will produce chitinase, an enzyme that digests the exoskeletons of aphids. (You need to wash egg shells and then sterilize them in a 375 degree oven for 10 minutes) Plant seeds for subsequent transplanting into a mixture of soil and worm castings. Plant transplants after adding worm castings to the transplant target area. Before planting seeds, soak them for 24 hours in clean water with amino acid chelated copper, cobalt, molybdenum, zinc with a trace amount of boron. I learned this from a high priced agricultural consultant. Worms do not like temps below 70 degrees. Soil biology goes dormant at 53 degrees.

@familybuddies 5 жыл бұрын

Can i feed banana peels to worms for potassium

@Horse237 5 жыл бұрын

Use a search engine to get a list of foods. Banana peels are too big for worms. And the ends too hard. No citrus.

@troymcdonald9795 5 жыл бұрын

Rock dust (67 minerals) is also good to add to worm bins worm break it down so the plants can use it better!

@GDKLockout 4 жыл бұрын

If you have a proper composting routine which includes manure and wood chip or brush, you dont need this stuff. Im sure its useful for kickstarting poor soil.

@ElectricBoogaloo007 4 жыл бұрын

@Horse237 You would add salt to your worm bin? Brilliant.

@michaeldvorak8140 4 жыл бұрын

Had a worm farm in 1975 , built on a shoestring, went great for 8 months, then the shoestring broke. But now, I m thinking 🤔 maybe it’s time to begin again. Just got my bail out check so who knows.

@steveallen2623 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such a awesome video

@somedude5951 5 жыл бұрын

I can imagine raising worms for years, will give you the desire to go fish with them 😄

@TheHerbinfarmer 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to see you're doing well, Jack. Cheers.

@steverose854 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jack! Is this THE JACK? Hope you're doing well too in this crazy world. Great comments on this episode and still coming in. I'll write to you on your email address if it's still the same. Chef

@craigglewis 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing where the path of life will take us :)

@steverose854 4 жыл бұрын

Michael---go for it you will appreciate it!

@AlokeshBagchi 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@newbiegardener3980 5 жыл бұрын

what type of worms are you raising?great video by the way.

@downundervlogs 3 жыл бұрын

So do you separate the cocoons from the compost? If so how? Great video here. Greetings from Australia.

@user-wz2nd1ny9u 3 жыл бұрын

Sir. Do you have the harvesting compost youtube here? Just here? Sir

@nelsonolivera8059 3 жыл бұрын

What is the machine at 0.28 where he dumps the 5 gallon bucket? I need a food waste shredder. Please let me know. Thanks, Nelson.

@Soilfoodwebwarrior 4 жыл бұрын

After intro I am hooked, subscriber!!

@joshream3164 8 ай бұрын

I would love to learn more about how to setup a manure composting container like that. We have lots of horse manure that I'd like to compost down faster to keep up with it. Our state only allows 500 sqft of composting space per the EPA so if you are able to compost manure down to compost in 4 weeks with that setup (4 bins) that would work perfectly for our operation. How can I learn more about how the forced air setup works? Great video by the way, thank you for sharing your process!

@aimandjulian3195 6 ай бұрын

great

@DireBiteLove 3 жыл бұрын

Yikes, living in AZ maybe the misting system over head , since i dont have a mulcher i pre freeze the food particles to soften, ill see how it goes. Great episode.

@user-lw3mt9tc5n 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍from Kazakhstan

@DolphGeurds 4 жыл бұрын

How does the bottom of the bins work? Is there a blade or rollers to harvest the castings? Really interested in the construction of the box

@robs9574 4 жыл бұрын

My commercial bin has a 5’ wide knife that rides in guides above a 4”x6” heavy wire grid. Boat winch on each end of the bin drags the knife sled across the bin. When you initially set up the bin add a layer of cardboard first then bedding. By the time castings are ready for first harvest 4-6 months the cardboard will have deteriorated for the most part. Scored my bin for free off of Craig’s list. Some ticked off landlord got stuck with it after her tenant moved out.

@deandean5947 5 жыл бұрын

WHAT IS THE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT?

@michaeljarvis8377 2 жыл бұрын

Question, those large composters for the manure are they just huge bins with carbon and nitrogen inputs that make them heat up or is the manure heated by electric means?

@anibaldamiao 11 ай бұрын

Only nature, no need to add anything. Blowing air or mixing accelerates the heating as microbes start eating/replicating more

@DansEarway 3 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏

@mahermorice1809 2 жыл бұрын

What is the maximum intensity of African crusher in square meter?

@Rshtuni-Papikyan 2 жыл бұрын

How many max quantities can o be from you ,please respond

@pccebu 3 жыл бұрын

22 dislikes? OMG amazing video thanks for this! ALL ORGANIC! ADDICTED to organics working on mylittlewormfarm.com now !

@doubleooh7337 4 жыл бұрын

Those COMPOST BINS THAT GET HOT! You should have water pipes going around inside of it ,so you can have hot water 24/7 some off grid people use the water for household heating and showers but I'm sure you'd think of your own usages! And as you take the heat it actually decomposes the compost faster! Don't let that heat go to waste!

@steverose854 4 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! It could act just like a solar water pre heat. I have forwarded your comment onto Jack Chambers. Thanks so much for your comments and you're enjoyment of my show! Steve

@doubleooh7337 4 жыл бұрын

@@steverose854 ok thanks well it is all about learning off eachother, I'm interested in the worms mainly , I've also thought of a way to make 2 different types of worm castings one high in nitrogen/ one high in phosphorus? if anybody is interested? I'll post my theory HERE! I'm also making it myself but just for myself nothing big. nitrogen one will encourage bigger, faster, more healthier plant phosphorus one will encourage bigger, faster, more nutritious fruit/flowers the second one would fetch a higher price as theres nothing on the market similiar you can only really get one type of worm castings

@jerrymaxey4664 4 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't take credit for things you didn't come up with first

@doubleooh7337 4 жыл бұрын

@@jerrymaxey4664 are you dumb? Or just can't read?

@doubleooh7337 4 жыл бұрын

@@jerrymaxey4664 what have i taken credit for that someone else come up with?

@tahirehsan2180 Жыл бұрын

Three years since the last comment hope somebody answers. A very nice job being done. I am also an ex pilot based in Pakistan and accidently into vermi-composting. If I am not asking for too much could you pl share the concept and mechanism of composting reactor and hot and cooling bins. A great job jack and Chef.

@brianboe3774 Жыл бұрын

I’m growing my worms in much smaller boxes. Cardboard and paper shredded and mixed with peat moss … getting prepared to do larger amounts … I recommend starting small and learn as you go.

@brianboe3774 Жыл бұрын

If you watch 100 worm videos on utube you’ll find 100 different ways of doing it

@fincaecologicalapilaricagu5999 Жыл бұрын

J.M. Director 🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷👍

@redhillscoffeeskenya9437 3 жыл бұрын

Where is this farm.......I would like to visit

@dianafelix3859 3 жыл бұрын

Sonoma

@powbruce Жыл бұрын

Do it work on weeds? ĺasking for some friends)

@ugurceldir 3 жыл бұрын

i just got my 100 worms today lets see how things go

@Death_User666 4 жыл бұрын

where can i find customers for a worm farm?

@jeil5676 4 жыл бұрын

any organic grower

@SibHoustonTX 5 жыл бұрын

How big and how thick for worm bed?. Thanks

@SibHoustonTX 5 жыл бұрын

@Ag Agios I may buy 3 lb from Amazon, thanks

@SibHoustonTX 5 жыл бұрын

@Ag Agios African worm

@SibHoustonTX 5 жыл бұрын

@Ag Agios for vermicompos

@SibHoustonTX 5 жыл бұрын

@Ag Agios thanks. I hope to sell vermil in near furture soon. I would do it as in your documents. Do you have idea where who should i contract to? Thanks

@stevenallen2530 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I knew all this 30 years ago.

@daawkebay Жыл бұрын

🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿👋👋👋

@wayneandrade5765 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Ross how much is it 20 pounds of worms money

@Rshtuni-Papikyan 2 жыл бұрын

$2000

@robertcroteau5597 10 ай бұрын

God is hilarious but some people are not going to like his sense of humour. Thank you Jesus.

@joansmith3492 5 жыл бұрын

I bet the mice, rats and roaches love that too. It's wide open. I bet it's at varmints smorgasbord at night.

@mchlive6930 5 жыл бұрын

Looks like they feed peat so no vermin

@PaulBengtsson 4 жыл бұрын

composted manure

@lavondacarter7228 4 жыл бұрын

We grew worms, but turned out to be a scam, lost thousands of dollars , hope the scammers have to eat worms !

@aregst 5 жыл бұрын

The end result lacks castings... it should be dark, almost black and hard or woody-looking particles almost not to be seen. If they are fed manure only, not at all to be seen. Otherwise it is "selling fast-composted manure with bits of warm castings" to clients.

@andrewfields8556 5 жыл бұрын

That's not true, the worms are completely eating and digesting the manure. He has a biologist in there helping to fine-tune his craft, and the extract he is making comes from his product which gives the ultimate result. He is doing tests with his product, and the proof is there.

@robs9574 4 жыл бұрын

aregst most don’t understand quality worm castings. Let them enjoy their mass produced product.

@robs9574 4 жыл бұрын

Old chunk of coal. Pretty simple math with castings, they’re only as good as the inputs used to make them. If you feed worms peat and cardboard vs a quality blend of composted manures and organic veggies which would you prefer?

@aregst 4 жыл бұрын

@@robs9574 I agree but I use no manure but only food wastes and it is black as the night. Although my problem is the lack of the "brown" parts maybe :D (balcony composting for several plants :)

@robs9574 4 жыл бұрын

Old chunk of coal. The fuck ever, I make a high quality castings that go into an even higher quality super soil mix that I have no problem selling to smart growers who want a water only mix. I know castings, good and bad. So shift this🖕