In my family, August is the birthday month. My mum, my two brothers and I all have our birthdays in August. This means I’ve recently been trying to figure out presents that aren’t a waste of money or resources. I used to buy “gift shop” presents for my friends and family. Fortunately I realised a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘earthworms’
Birthdays and Earthworms
Posted in Consumption, tagged compost, earthworms, Family, Garden, sustainable living on 29 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
Compost Snob No More
Posted in dogs, tagged compost, earthworms, Family, Lazyst, Recycling, sustainable living, vermiculture on 10 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
I really can’t be a compost snob anymore because I now have a worm farm, complete with wiggly earthworms. They look just the same as the earthworms in my compost bin, but I’m assured they’re not. My dad informed me that I couldn’t just leave them; I had to look after them. Does he [...]
Correcting Earthworms and more Composting tips
Posted in books, cats, dogs, invasive species, tagged anaerobic bacteria, compost, correction, earthworms, Family, Garden, Lazyst, mesophilic bacteria, Recycling, thermophilic bacteria, vermiculture on 5 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
After writing about earthworms and composting the other week, I read Composting: from organic waste to black gold by Victoria Heywood (Penguin, 2005) and found out I got some things wrong. I thought I’d better correct my mistakes.
I’ve always thought that composting and vermiculture were completely different. I knew in the back of my mind [...]
Earthworms Everywhere
Posted in books, extinction, invasive species, tagged compost, earthworms, Garden, Recycling, thermophilic bacteria, vermiculture on 26 July 2007 | 7 Comments »
Update: More details on Giant Gippsland Earthworms are here.
Update: I made some mistakes here and corrected them in this post.
Earthworms are the natural recycling factory. Charles Darwin said
Earthworms are nature’s ploughshare.
My garden and compost bin are full of earthworms, which I love, but paradoxically I don’t usually like animals or plants that were introduced to an area by [...]
Compost, Beautiful Compost
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged compost, earthworms, Garden, insects, Recycling, saving water on 13 May 2007 | 8 Comments »
Compost is the best thing you can enrich soil with, because its recycled organic matter and it doesn’t cost anything to make – just a bit of rubbish sorting and time for it to ferment. You may have to purchase or make a container to keep it in. It’s a good idea to contain compost, [...]
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
About ClareSnow
I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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