Worm Farm Turns Food Waste into the Best Fertilizer in the Garage TOUR

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits Las Vegas Worm Farm, a farm that uses landfill waste including yard waste, cardboard, and food scraps to turn garbage into the best worm castings that are better than fertilizer for the Las Vegas, Nevada area in a 2-car garage! You will discover how he got started farming worms at home, and how he grows them in several different ways depending on the use of the worms or the worm castings. You will learn about the simple methods he uses to keep his worms cool in the summer in his non-climate-controlled garage and how he makes LEAF dust, which is more easily digested by the worms than whole leaves using an imported hammer mill. You will discover how he made a soil trommel using an old treadmill, bicycle rims, some 2x4s, and metal fencing material. You will learn the real benefit of the worm castings: the biology in the worm castings that powers the FOOD SOIL WEB so you can have living soil in your garden that makes its fertilizers for your plants! Jump to the following parts of this episode: 00:00 Episode Starts 00:14 Las Vegas Worm Farm 01:20 How to Start a Worm Farm in Your Garage 01:52 Only use locally sourced ingredients to Make Worn Castings 03:02 Their First Worm Bin: Worm Factory 360 04:22 Ideal Temperature for Worms 05:04 Outdoor DIY Worm Box in Las Vegas 07:10 How to Keep Worms alive outside: Watering to Keep cool 07:54 Flow-Thru DIY Worm Bin 10:16 DIY Worm Bins in Garage built into metal shelving using melamine particle board 13:00 Why These Worm Castings Are Better than Others I have farms I have visited 14:03 How he harvest worm castings from his flow thru system 15:55 Growing Live Worms for Sale 17:35 Growing Breeding Worms for On-Farm Use 19:15 Feeding High Protein Mix to Breeding 20:45 What he is feeding his worms - Diverted Food Scraps 22:30 Best Equipment to Grind up food not a blender, a hammer mill 29:43 Cardboard thru Hammer Mill 25:41 Using Hammer Mill to Make Local Leaf Dust 27:40 Don't feed Chicken Crumbles to Worms 28:15 Using Hammer Mill to Grind Local Mesquite Pods and Leaves 28:25 Main Food he Feeds to Worms: Local Compost 31:45 Transforming Landfill Waste into Local Worm Castings 33:45 Seed Sifter Used to Sift Worm Castings for Small Amounts 35:15 Homemade DIY Compost Sifter Trommel Made with Bike tires, Treadmill Motor, Wire Mesh, plastic sheeting, and 2x4's 38:02 Keep Your Worms Moist with Filtered Water to Keep Biology 41:15 Testing Soil Biology of Las Vegas Worm Castings 42:52 Ensure Your Worm Castings or Compost is Living Soil 43:44 The problem with Store-Bought Bag Soils 45:55 Interview with Dennis Wichter owner of Las Vegas Vegas Worm Farm 47:14 Why did you start a worm farm? 48:28 Why is it important to use only locally sourced ingredients? 49:26 Why is it important to you to divert landscape waste? 51:00 Why do you only sell your worm castings locally? 53:50 What do you do to keep your worms alive in the Hot summer? 55:45 How do you keep your outdoor worm bins alive in the summer? 57:25 Why did you choose red wiggler composting worms? 59:05 What benefits have customers got from your worm castings? 1:01:45 Why do feel worm castings work to help people grow better food? 1:04:05 Why Worm Castings are Better than Miracle Grow or Organic Fertilizers 1:05:05 How does the food soil web work? 1:07:10 Build up food soil web creatures to Create Your Own Fertilizer instead of buying it. 1:08:25 How can you make Compost Tea to multiply microbes? 1:11:34 Tell me about buying a hammer mill. 1:15:40 Why did you make a DIY Trommel and how much did it cost? 1:17:35 How can you buy your worm castings locally? 1:18:45 Will you answer questions about worms and starting a worm farm? 1:20:11 What keeps you motivated to keep on going? 1:22:15 Any final words of wisdom you would like to share? After watching this episode, you will learn how you can start a worm farm in your garage using landscape waste to make the best organic fertilizer money can buy. Related/Referenced Episodes Free/Cheap Meal Worm/Insect Frass Castings    • Low Cost Organic Fertilizer That Makes You...   Arizona Worm Farm Tour    • Best Worm Castings in Arizona Made from Fo...   Boogie Blue Water Filter    • Best In-Line Water Hose Filter for your Or...   Texas Worm Farm    • Best Worm Castings I Found in Texas and Ma...   California Worm Farm    • How the Best Worm Castings are Made that C...   Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Follow John on Instagram at:   / growingyourgreens   Watch all 1700+ Episodes from GrowingYourGreens at    / growingyourgreens   Referenced Links: Las Vegas Worm Farm https://lasvegaswormfarm.com/ Las Vegas Worm Farm Youtube    / @lasvegaswormfarm   Las Vegas Worm Farm Instagram   / lasvegaswormfarm   Las Vegas Worm Farm Facebook   / lasvegaswormfarm