Dear readers,
Referring to the question about vermiculture. Why should you want to use vermiculture when you have already digested solid waste that could be applied to the fields directly? With raw manure, I could see the advantage, as you would get a somewhat dry, concentrated and easy to apply organic fertilizer, without the acidifying effect of manure. Is it the reduction in volume that is an advantage? Or are people used to using vermiculture organic fertilizer and do not know the usage of digested solid waste? Maybe somebody has some thoughts about this. Do you apply liquid waste to the composting heaps (the liquids which remains when separating digistate into solids and liquids?) to keep it moist? Thanks Theo Bijman Matt and listers, Hello, There are two projects in South India doing vermiculture of digestate: SKG Sangha and VK-Nardep that have been highlighted on the list, as they both won Ashden Awards. There are videos available for both projects, although the one for VK-Nardep is a sequence of still photographs taken at the time of the judge's visit. The Ashden Award links are: www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha <http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha> and www.ashdenawards.org/winners/vknardep <http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/vknardep> . A direct link to SKG Sangha is: www.skgsangha.org <http://www.skgsangha.org> and to VK-Nardep is: vknardep.org <http://vknardep.org> . Regards, David Fulford On 11/11/2010 01:33, Matt Lorig wrote: There was a project mentioned on the list (maybe a year or two ago) about a vermiculture project using the digestate from a biogas plant. I think it was in India. I think they were using sawdust to soak up the water and composting it for a period of time and then introducing the worms. I can't find the link now. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? Or does anyone have any info about vermiculture combined with biogas? Matt Lorig [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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