Raising Composting Earthworms for Fun and Profit

by Daniel C Merrill MD

Overview

This eBook was written to encourage home owners and apartment dwellers to compost their kitchen and paper waste with Red Wiggler composting earthworms. This book, which covers every aspect of vermiculture, tells you where to get your composting earthworms (for free no less); how to build worm bins and windows to house your worms; what to feed your earthworms; how to harvest and use worm casting in your garden and potted plants; and, for those who would like to raise earthworms to enhance their income, a sure-fire fool proof way to market earthworms and earthworm related products.
The information contained in the chapters on earthworm biology, monitoring the environment of the worm's bedding; trouble shooting; and what composting earthworms can and cannot eat are essential for any successful vermiculture endeavor.
Finally, and most importantly, in the opening chapter entitled Why Grow Earthworms the author explains why we should be composting our house waste with earthworms (did you know that worms will eat 50% of everything that goes into your garbage can?). In this chapter he emphasizes the environmental damage that our present waste management system is doing to our environment and destructive effect that local and long haul garbage trucks are having on our local streets and highways. Go Green; compost your household waste with earthworms! This eBook tells you how to do it!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012629005
Publisher:	eBookIt.com
Publication date:	02/08/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr Merrill's families were pioneers of the Seventh Day Adventist Colony in Eel Rock, California in 1933. Eel Rock is located in the center of the redwood empire above the banks of the majestic North Fork of the Eel River, about 20 miles upriver from its' junction with the South Fork at Dyersville.

Because of the educational limitations of this sparsely populated rural area, the Merrill's ultimately moved to Myers Flat on the more populous South fork of the Eel River in 1948. Dr Merrill was one of only 72 graduates from the South Fork High school in 1955. He subsequently graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with honor and a degree in Physiology four years later. When Dr Merrill graduated from the University of Southern California Medical School in 1963, he became the first graduate from South Fork High School to become a MD.

After completed his internship and a year of surgical residency in California, Dr Merrill moved to Minnesota where he performed his Urology Residency under the late Don Creevy at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center in Minneapolis. After completing his residency, Dr Merrill performed a NIH special fellowship in Urology at the University of Minnesota and subsequently joined the staff of the Urology department at that institution.

In 1973 Dr Merrill was recruited by the University of California at Davis to administer their Urology training program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinez California. Dr Merrill served as Chief of Urology in that institution until its closure in 1991. Dr Merrill and his wife Tina have two daughters. They have lived in the bay area for the past 39 years.

Dr Merrill has a lifelong interest in agriculture related activities having owned and operated large almond, pear and walnut orchards in Northern California. He now grows wine grapes on his property in Contra Costa Counties' Alhambra Valley and is the sole proprietor of The Mount Diablo Worm Farm.

This is Dr Merrill's second eBook. The first book, also published by eBookit.com, is titled The Northern California Camper. This 163 page eBook describes in detail 66 of the best campgrounds in Northwestern California. The book is supplemented by 98 colored photographs with greatly enhance the descriptive value of the books written text.