Vermiculture at Mills River

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Vermiculture at a larger scale usually means a continuous flow through system, where you do away with stacking trays and totes in favor of a contained system where food goes in the top, and black gold comes out the bottom Connect With Adam Wallace: Adam Wallace is the Natural Resource Manager for Sierra Nevada at the Mills River location. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:16.0	We're back with Adam Wallace on the podcast this week.
0:18.7	He's the natural resource manager for Sierra Nevada Brewing Company out at the Mills River
0:23.2	location.
0:24.2	So yesterday we talked about aerated static composting, how they're managing to turn
0:29.0	over compost in about two or three months and then apply it to all different areas
0:33.0	of the property out there.
0:34.4	But that's not the only way that you're repurposing organic matter, right Adam?
0:40.4	That's right.
0:41.4	That's right.
0:42.4	We use any and all means we can to turn our waste material into something that can benefit
0:48.5	our property.
0:49.5	Perfect.
0:50.5	And that means that you're probably using worms then.
0:53.7	We are not too low to employ worms for sure.
0:57.9	They're actually great workers if you can put up with their demeanor.
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:03.8	Some people, it's interesting, I'll share my, I have a pretty small scale worm composting
1:08.2	system to here of course, you know, and I'm messing around in the bin and grabbing them
1:12.6	with my hands and stuff and some people love that and then some people freak out.
1:16.7	It seems like it's a personality thing.
1:18.8	Yeah.
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