2008-07-25T00:36:19Z http://compostking.com/atom.aspx Quick Blog tag:compostking.com,2008-07-15:343b651b-ff35-4326-b7f4-04fe3eca46e6 Ken Chiarella 2008-07-15T08:00:11Z 2008-07-15T07:54:00Z
We grow our Soldier Grubs in clean greenhouse conditions using pure grain products so that we are not dealing with anything that can hurt the pets that Soldier Grubs are fed to.  One interesting this is that we often have escapees in the form of Black Soldier Flies escaping our netted greenhouses.  We have been finding the larvae in our red worm beds that are several acres away.  The larvae do a super job at eating the red worm food.  It's amazing how quickly they turn the waste into castings. 

I am going to post a video soon to show you what I mean.  I think there may be an application for Solider Grubs in the composting market.  What takes the Red Worm months to eat, takes the Solder Grub days to eat.  it is just incredible.  I will post back soon with pictures and a video to show you what I mean.

Stay tuned.
]]> tag:compostking.com,2008-01-30:45f73cfd-b11a-414b-8137-30f5208e3cf6 Ken Chiarella 2008-01-30T19:09:43Z 2008-01-30T18:25:00Z Wormman.com
We are going to have some fun here.  About as much fun as one can have getting excited about composting food scraps and organic material in order to make a nutrient rich, "Green" fertilizer/garden soil.  If you want to make plant food, create great garden soil, or just feed worms food scraps, this blog is for you. Please join me in making this a great place to learn together.


I started Wormman.com because I was looking for a garden solution for my very sandy soil. I didn't want to use chemical fertilizers. I wanted to turn all of those food scraps, rabbit manure and pony manure into rich compost that I could use for my real passion which was gardening. I bought some red worms from a classified advertisement in the back of a magazine and started composting.  The worms grew very well and multiplied like mad. I kept dividing the beds in order to make more garden soil.  The vegetables were fantastic and abundant.  Family, friends and neighbors flocked to our garden like chickens to a worm bed(Sorry friends and family!) and caused the need for more compost. 

We were soon saddled with many worms and beds and a nice compost factory.  The worms bins were over flowing and we needed to find an outlet for the composting worms.  Wormman.com was born. 

We quickly sold all of the worms we had produced and built more beds. A part-time garden hobby quickly turned into a full-time business.  We added other types of composting worms and supplies and the business took off.  We added other types of worms, and critters like live crickets and the business exploded.  I was living my dream of living off of our our land just as my Great Grandfather had done many years before i was born. 

The internet allowed a perfect marriage of old world values with new world technology.  Farming, for us, became possible with a nice niche that would not have been possible prior to the internet.

Now that we have a thriving business and employees to help with the daily tasks, I have the time to get back to my passion which is enjoying the process of farming, growing insects and composting.  I plan to have a banner garden year in 2008.  The Spinach is already sprouting in our greenhouses. 

I am going to create some composting projects and maybe videos, if I can figure out how to post them, and work through this all with you.

I hope you join me.  Please feel free to start your own projects and post them here. 

I know you are out there.  I wouldn't have this business if there weren't people out there like me, so join me and let's garden and compost together. 
Thanks!
Ken

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