: worm composting & rainwater

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Funny thing is, that when i tell people that I raise earthworms, they always

want to see them.

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Re: OT: worm composting & rainwater

If I told that to my husband " Brooklyn is one of the biggest communities with

worm composting " , my husband would never leave the house.

ROFL.

How funny!!!!!

Well, there are MANY people in my area who make their own wine in their garages.

They have casks and big things full of home-made wine. I saw these things once

and I asked my neighbor " what on earth are those things? " and he said " you're

Italian and you don't recognize home made wine?? " I was fascinated.

But NOTHING fascinated me like when I first moved into my area 20 years ago.

I walked into my backyard to find my landlord, the family and other people with

these BIG vats of mason jars and lids and basil and fresh tomatoes in HUMONGUOUS

BINS.

I said " whatever are you guys doing? " I was told " We are making tomato sauce " .

Now you have to understand. I thought tomato sauce came in a jar called Ragu or

Hunts or whatever.

I said " you're doing what??? " And they patiently explained how people from the

old country would NEVER go into a store and buy tomato sauce " I said " get out

of here "

They handed me a knife, I sat down in front of all of these wood crates and I

began cutting tomatoes into chunks and dumping them into this BIG vat of water.

Then I watched as they put the tomatoes in this sieve and strained them. Took

HOURS. Then they poured the stuff into Mason Jars, then put the lids on, then

they had these HUMONGOUS other bins over some electric element, and they cooked

the jars which also sealed them. They used these HUGE tong things to pick up the

jars.

Never in all my life had I ever seen these things.

So guess what Melody has been doing every year for 20 years.

Helping out in the backyard and jarring tomatoes. It gives me a lot of

satisfaction to do this.

No one under the age of 30 does this around here. Everybody is over 80.

And you should see them work!!!

lol

Melody

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> > > I've had a " worm farm " going in my basement for the past 3 years. I use

the

> > >'wormtopia' stackable tray system. I use the 'soil' that is produced to

> > >sprout/grow my wheatgrass, and the wheatgrass root mats go back into the

worm

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> > >farm. Inbetween wheatgrass mats, the worms get all my kitchen veggie

scraps.

> >It

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> > >is a wonderful system. I also use the worm castings in my garden.

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