Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition
How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family
$44.93
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
26 December 2017
Summary
For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen sink in an apartment—making vermicomposting a great option for city dwellers and anyone who doesn’t want or can’t have an outdoor compost pile. The fully revised 35th anniversary edition features the original’s same friendly tone, with up-to-date information on the entire process, from building or purchasing a bin to maintaining the worms and harvesting the finished compost.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781612129471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1612129471 |
| Author: | Mary Appelhof, Joanne Olszewski, Amy Stewart |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Storey Publishing LLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 26 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 152mm x 228mm |
Critics Review
“Mary Appelhof’s prescription for saving the world – in your own backyard. … [My own worms] have proven to be surprisingly good pets: clean, industrious, self-sufficient, and always up for the job of devouring compost and enriching the soil.” – Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
“Mary Appelhof turned complicated science into understandable and usable advice. She’s sculpted into my Mount Rushmore of the founders of the organic movement.” – Jeff Lowenfels, author of Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web
Mary Appelhof
Mary Appelhof (1936-2005) was the original author of Worms Eat My Garbage and an international authority and lecturer on small-scale vermicomposting. Her honors included a National Science Foundation grant and the National Recycling Coalition’s Recycler of the Year.
Joanne Olszewski, a close friend of Appelhof’s, updated the book for the 35th Anniversary Edition. Olszewski is a fellow vermi-enthusiast and the owner of Wormwoman Inc. She lives in Arkansas.
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