Hippy-dippyness, and GIP!

[mousme]

It's ridiculously difficult to get in touch with anyone who might have red wriggler worms to sell.

Eco-quartier is closed from Friday to Sunday, inclusively.

The other number I tried (I was told "worm swap" but it's somewhere else) said they wouldn't have worms until April.

Worm Swap didn't answer their phone.

Sustainable Concordia didn't answer their phone.

Pousse-menu answered, but only after I tried three times (every 15 minutes).


So I'm off to Pousse-menu later today. I'm going to take a shower, hie myself to Best Buy for a camera, and then to Pousse-menu for worms. I hope their worms aren't as stupidly expensive as the other stuff, because I am leery of the prices listed on their website. They're selling the whole worm-kit for over $70, whereas I paid $13 for my box. Yeah.

GIP for environmental stuff!

Okay, shower.

Comments

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

For me, worms=bait, so I'm unable to figure out how the worms are environmental.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Although there are roughly 2,700 different species of worm in the world, as I understand it they can be divided into three categories:

1- Earth worms.

2- Sea-worms.

3- Manure worms.


Earth worms are your typical bait, as are sea-worms (when you can get them). Compost worms are generally smaller, and prefer to live in giant piles of organic waste, which they help to break down. Earth worms, for instance, don't actually break down organic matter so much as they burrow around in the earth, providing much-needed ventilation (although they do help in the process of breaking down of organic matter too).

So, since composting outdoors is basically impossible in Canada in the wintertime, a good alternative is to get a vermicomposter, which is essentially a bin with worms, a bit of soil, and a bunch of organic waste. After about three months, the worms can produce a pretty decent quantity of fertilized soil.