What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Worm Podcast is what it's going on this

week with Steve Churchill of the Urban Worm Company. Like I've mentioned before

he makes the Urban Wormbag. It is my favorite worm bin. I've used plenty, and it is the one that I've kept for the longest period of time.

It's worked really, really well, so I highly encourage you to check it out. Today we're talking about worm tea. We hear a lot about compost tea, we hear a lot about

worm tea, and we hear how amazing it is for our gardens. And I think the misconception or the thing that's missing in that process is, okay, well, exactly what is it?

And how does it compare to Leachate, which I'm going to let Steve explain?

Because I think it will be that little piece of knowledge that rounds out your understanding of some of the byproducts of verma composting in the first place.

So this is a huge misconception especially among really actually among

beginners and experts. Leachate is often what people think of as worm tea because

it is effectively just a liquid that is

draining from the bottom of your worm bin. And for those of you that are using

the stackable plastic worm bins you'll notice that they have a little tap

on the bottom which is really meant more to relieve excess

moisture than it is to allow you to collect what you think is worm tea. So what leach it is is just excess moisture that has leached

its way down into the bottom of your worm bin and is something that I think you are

probably under the impression that is going to be of course good for your good for your plants

But the problem with that kind of with that kind of liquid is that it typically if you're getting a if you have a

worm bin that is producing leachate then it's highly likely that that liquid

is going to be anaerobic, meaning lacking oxygen, and it could even

be pathogenic if it is sort of sat in the bottom of a verma compost bin, and if pathogens were

already present, then that is a ripe environment for those

pathogens to continue to grow. So worm tea is actually a deliberately produced liquid that is made by taking an existing verma

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