Any interest in worm castings

[Alan]

I will soon be caught up with preparing everything for the long winter ahead. I've still got a ton of downed timber to get cut to use for fuel for the greenhouses this winter and a lot of other little "winterizing" projects to get out of the way, not to mention learning how to use an incubator to hatch guinea and chicken eggs. However I haven't forgotten about this site and will be back shortly and have been running over thoughts and ideas in my head about what and how Hip-Gnosis Seed Development will offer seeds and other goods over the next few years. I have developed a new pay pal account and that will be one of the new methods of payment available to those interested.

Anyhow, one thing I keep coming back to is worm castings. I find it hard to part with any of this precious material but I am alwasy creating more and if it gets people interested in vermiculture then I am willing to part with some of it, of course there is also the possibility that I will soon be converting one of the big greenhouses and or putting up a new greenhouse juse to raise worms and castings in, so this may become a commercial venture in the future.

Anyway, I was more or less wondering if there would be an interest from anyone this winter in buying small amounts of worm castings from probably 2.5-5 lb bags.

Let me know and I'll definetly be putting it into consideration.

[johno]

Just an observation... I have been known to actually buy worm castings for seedling mix, against my principles of thriftiness. I like the mix to be made of sterile materials, but worm castings are an exception - they have good microbes! The bags available here come in 5, 10, and 20 pound sizes. I buy a 20 pound bag once a year (as I said, for seedling mix only) at $1.00 per pound. Of course the smaller bags are more per pound. The point of diminishing returns for the benefits of worm castings in a potting mix seems to be about 1 part in 5.