Carolina Worm Castings

On November 3rd, Ben worked with West End Elementary School’s 5th graders teaching them to build worm bins.  The 5th graders plan to teach the younger grades how to build worm bins for their classrooms!

Please visit our new webstore at: http://www.shop.carolinawormcastings.com/

We still provide local delivery service options for the Triangle area!  We will be adding more items!!

Schools may apply for a gardening grant through Whole Foods Kids Foundation.  The applications are accepted through December  31, 2011 and funding is dispersed in February, 2012.  Carolina Worm Castings is willing to partner with your  community school to enhance an existing garden or start a new garden area at your child’s school.  Contact us for further information and our fee schedule. WKF-SchoolGardenGrantApp-Final-1

We just may have the COOLEST worms around….. In order to keep our worms cool during these blistering hot summer months, we have surrounded their bins with a clear plastic tent and employed a window air conditioner.   Along with a couple of fans to keep the air circulating, this has allowed our worms to be the coolest ever !!!!

Thanks to all who visited with us this past Saturday at the Chatham County Community College Campus.  There were lots of folks to talk with about opportunities to reduce, reuse & recycle here in Chatham County.   The weather was beautiful.  Many thanks to Teresa Chapman for all her hard work!!

Kindergarten classes from Pittsboro Elementary School visited with us when they came for a field trip on April 8th.

The finishing touches were completed April 1st and the raised garden containers were delivered to Pittsboro Elementary School that afternoon.   Carolina Worm Castings built the eight raised beds fashioned from halved recycled plastic totes and natural rough cut cedar.  One of the beds was crafted to be wheelchair accessible.  Happy gardening, Spring has sprung!!

Workshop Participants

Lunch by Abundance Foundation Office

Ben describes a worm life c

Ben conducted the Vermicompost-Build a Worm Bin workshop on Saturday sponsored by the Abundance Foundation. A dozen folks registered and participated.  The weather was beautiful and we were able to be outside for hands-on activities.  Ben explained  the worm farming processes we use at Carolina Worm Castings and then we were able to actually do them by screening and separating the worms, the castings and the cocoons. We ate lunch together in the sunshine outside the office of the Abundance Foundation.  Following lunch, we set to work assembling the worm bins. Everybody left with their completed worm bin and half pound of happy worms!

Happy vermicomposting to all who participated!

?? WANT TO BUY WORMS, WORM CASTINGS OR A VERMICOMPOST BLEND ??

SEND US AN EMAIL TO info@carolinawormcastings.com OF WHAT YOU WANT & WE WILL CONTACT YOU ABOUT DELIVERY ARRANGEMENTS

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WHOLE FOODS  (CARY STORE):  Located at 102B New Waverly Place, Cary. Offers our products in store.  Worms take a couple days notice for us to have them there for you fresh and happy!  Phone: (919) 816-8830.   We are at Whole Foods many Saturdays from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm.  We take orders for worms, 10 gallon bags of vermicompost and larger for bulk casting orders for delivery the following Saturday.   Check with us for dates we will be at Whole Foods in Cary’s Waverly Place store.

FAIRVIEW GREENHOUSES AND GARDEN CENTER: Located at 8224 Holly Springs Road, Raleigh.  Fairview offers our vermicompost blend and worm castings.  Look for Ben when he visits with an active worm bin and is there to answer all your vermicomposting & worm inquiries personally!  Phone: (919) 851-6821.

PITTSBORO PIEDMONT BIOFUEL PLANT: Visit our worm operation and pick up what you need directly from us.  Please call (255-8527 or 928-6497) or email (info@carolinawormcastings.com) ahead of time to ensure our availability.



The soil in your garden soil is the most important piece of a successful garden, but sometimes  people forget to nurture and feed that soil.  Some people forget that soil is a living thing, containing insect life, microbes and fungi.  These insects, microbes and fungi are necessary to plant health.  A little soil “TLC”  pays off each and every harvest.

You may wish to think about your soils pH, or the acidity or alkalinity.  Adding  organic materials can lower the pH, or make it more acidic. If your soil is already high in acid and you would like to neutralize it, you might add lime or wood ashes to your soil.
Also, in the Winter you will want to feed your garden soil fungi.  Many stores that specialize in products for organic gardening and sustainable agriculture will sell “micorrhizal spores”,  a fungus that helps the soil release nutrients.  Micorrhiza needs to be fed in order to reproduce and survive the winter. Use a hose-end sprayer, and fill it halfway with molasses. If you can, use the sulphured kind of molasses.  Fill the rest of the sprayer up with flat beer and then spray this solution over your garden area. The sugar in the molasses will feed the existing fungi and beneficial bacteria in the soil.  The yeasts and enzymes in the beer will add more; so you will make your garden soil come alive!