How To Make A Worm Smoothie
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2019
- Hallsome farm practices sustainable farming methods, in this video we show how we use kitchen scraps to make a worm smoothie to help break down the food more efficiently for the worms in order to make worm castings for the garden.
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Keep Going! Just watched the video and I am building this!
Great let us know how it goes
Thank you for the info. Just wondered if you realized that you need to turn up your volume?
Very interesting.
Thanks
Keep it up
Do you have a video showing how you started the worm bed? We would like to try it. I have been freezing our scraps to help them breakdown but I like the smoothie better. Thank you for your great videos.
Yes I have a couple of them search Hallsome farm and all my videos will show up
Bob. Thank you. I learned some stuff. You have some very good ideas. I have been messing around with this stuff for 45 years. I use grow bags filled with Terra Preta soil (an ancient man made soil that was rediscovered a few years ago deep in the jungles in Brazil) and I put a dozen or more of earthworms in each grow bag. It is not an exaggeration to say I am growing my food in an earthworm bin filled with terra preta soil -- only it is not a bin, it is a grow bag. From now on I will be feeding my worms in my grow bags compost smoothies -- thanks to you -- pouring it around the growing plants. What a great idea! They say Terra Preta soil stays fertile for 1000 years and longer. It basically, the way I understand it, the way I do it, is finished compost plus some mineral dust, plus some clay, plus some sea salt, plus some charcoal dust -- which has all been passed through the intestines of an earthworm -- when you do this, magic happens. My best guess is the charcoal is activated by earthworm secretions and enzymes. I place my grow bags (if you don't know what this is, do a RUclips search) on top of an aquaponics grow bed so that it is a couple of inches below the high water line. I fill the space between the grow bags with pebbles to prevent algae. The grow bags wick fertilizer water from the grow bed up into their soil. Aquaponics does a good job of breaking down fish urine, but it does not break down fish poop fast enough. Over time the beds become a fish poop cesspool. That is the dirty little secret of aquaponics. I plant six foot tall bonsai fruit trees on the outer edge of the grow beds, and let some of their roots grow down into the gravel in the grow bed. The woody tree roots break down and absorb the fish poop. The trees grow like crazy and produce a lot of fruit. The grow bed stops being a cess pool. The trees thrive, the plants in the grow bags thrive, the fish thrive. From the point of view of nutrition, plants need to grow in soil. Again, each grow bag also is a worm farm. It is not just a matter of mineral content, it is also a matter of energy. The worms are pumping energy into the grow bag soil. The grow bags typically last five years before they rot and have to be replaced. But I typically will do something like plant 10 corn plants in one grow bag. I will get 30 huge good tasting, nutritious ears of corn, but the soil in the grow bag will be spent and root bound. I will retire the bag early, harvest the worms, and shred and compost the roots, recycling it into the compost, and start a new grow bag. Twelve worms after three years become about a thousand, which is manageable but barely manageable; but after five years the worm population will have grown to over 12,000, which is too many for a single grow bag. OK, there is one more thing to share. I grow alfalfa in some of the grow bags, and make leaf protein concentrate from it, twelve cuttings a year -- it is delicious and really healthy. What is leaf protein concentrate? You juice the leaves and stems, and put the juice in a pot, you add a little water, and slowly bring it to a boil. It quickly separates out into curds and whey. Anyone can do it in their kitchen. It is not rocket science. The curds are pure protein, which you filter and wash -- this is not only edible, it is a miracle health food. A lot of research has been done. There are no negatives. They are making alfalfa leaf concentrate right now and putting it in animal feed pellets. One more thing. In the seventies, at UC Davis, it was discovered that when you have a certain worm population density (greater than 10 per surface square foot) they attack legume root nodes,. The worms do this to eat the protozoa. This stimulates a repair process in the alfalfa which includes growth hormone -- so you get a 300% biomass increase. This practice works with all legumes. You will get a 300% yield increase in beans if you are growing beans. It takes 13 acres to raise a cow -- at best if if the conditions are good. Thirteen acres of alfafa leaf concentrate, the way I do it, could feed 5,000 people and it is a better quality protein. Maybe we do not have to eat meat three times a day? Or maybe we can eat less meat at a meal and also have some other satisfying side dishes that make us feel better? Sorry this was so long. I got carried away. If you have any questions, you can email me at skipkelly@onebox.com. I have just discovered your RUclips channel and I want to complement you on what you have said and done. Thanks for sharing you many good ideas.
Thanks Skip, sounds like you have done lots of experimentation in your day, I love it. We can’t be afraid of getting out there and see what works. The sad thing is we only get 50 or so try’s at growing things in our life, good news is today it’s easy to share our ideas.
@@HallsomeFarm Several years ago I read about a Chinese man who died in 1931 and was 255 years old. He served under three different emperors and current one had commissioned a study and verified his age. He was a martial arts warrior and a master herbalist. He was married many times. He was interviewed by the western press. They asked him for his secret and he told them. Plus there are several books written about him. I have pretty much figured out what he did, and am doing it. I am aiming for 160. I figure no body is going to care about or ask me for my secret until I am at least 110. In my mind I am just getting started.
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Thank you
Where do you get that large tote.?
Any big box store
I was wondering if your wicking worm beds were still holding up?
Yes they are doing very well
Hello from indonesia. It didn't seem like the container was using the wicking bed method .am i wrong?
Sorry you are wrong it is the wicking bed, see my other videos on making the wicking bed worm farm
Thanks . i just started to be interested in growing stuff. I really like your channel you provide good info. I will try to make 2 worm bins using your method of wicking bed.
Great let me know how it goes, thanks for watching
Thank you for not making us drink that
No we get the benefit down the road in healthy productive plants