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    Worms are Publicity Hounds
    Bill
    • Mar 13
    • 2 min

    Worms are Publicity Hounds

    Worms are great - no question. Earthworms aerate the soil and composting worms consume decaying material that many consider "garbage."...
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    Local media coverage ...
    Bill
    • Aug 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Local media coverage ...

    We always appreciate interest in our worm farm! This story ran in The (Glens Falls) Chronicle on Earth Day in April, 2021
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    Bringing the Heat
    Bill
    • Jul 15, 2021
    • 1 min

    Bringing the Heat

    It's the "dog days of summer" as this is being written, with about 1,000% humidity and temperatures that feel like 100 or more, even...
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    How Much is Enough?
    Bill
    • Apr 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    How Much is Enough?

    Worm farms generally sell castings by the pound, rather than area (for example, 5 lbs instead of X cubic feet). Part of the reason is...
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    The Cold Hard Truth About Hot Compost
    Bill
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Cold Hard Truth About Hot Compost

    A lot of backyard composters assume the freezing temperatures of winter keep their piles from heating up, and the cold does make it...
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    5 suggestions for your dying Christmas tree
    Bill
    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    5 suggestions for your dying Christmas tree

    What do you do with your Christmas tree after the holiday season? While some towns pick up discarded trees and bring them to a mulcher,...
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    How to Harvest Worm Castings
    Bill
    • Nov 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    How to Harvest Worm Castings

    We're often asked how you can separate the castings and worms when your home worm bin is ready to harvest. The most efficient and easiest...
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    Tracking Progress
    Bill
    • Oct 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tracking Progress

    We have a two main areas of focus at Adirondack Worm Farm. The first is all things worm-related: red wiggler composting worms, vermicast,...
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    How to lower your carbon footprint by more than 1 ton every year
    Bill
    • Jul 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    How to lower your carbon footprint by more than 1 ton every year

    A lot of people want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, fight climate change, and reduce their own carbon footprint. There are plenty of...
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    AC for the worm bin?
    Bill
    • Jul 5, 2020
    • 2 min

    AC for the worm bin?

    June was very hot and pretty dry. The first week of July has already topped out over 90F and likely will do so again (and one of our fans...
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    Time for tea
    Bill
    • Jun 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time for tea

    If you want to stretch the use of worm castings over an extensive garden, or your front lawn, there's a fairly simple process to turn the...
    51 views0 comments
    Organic contaminants?
    Bill
    • Apr 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    Organic contaminants?

    Our curbside composting customers are great, and we truly appreciate every one of them. They take the time to keep biodegradable waste...
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    Give me that static ... (aerated static)
    Bill
    • Apr 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Give me that static ... (aerated static)

    When you work with pile after pile of hot compost year-round, finding ways to streamline the process is important. While getting the...
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    Chip, chip, hooray
    Bill
    • Mar 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    Chip, chip, hooray

    Composting requires a mix of both nitrogen and carbon to be successful. The nitrogen or "greens" are food waste and fresh vegetative...
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    New Year Resolutions
    Bill
    • Jan 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    New Year Resolutions

    It's a new year, and many people of course make New Year's Resolutions. It can be a useful practice, though many don't follow through...
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    A Joyous Christmas season to all!
    Bill
    • Dec 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    A Joyous Christmas season to all!

    The Christmas tree is up, the stockings are hung, the lights are strung, and we're ready for jolly ole St. Nick. It was touch and go as...
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    Thankful at Thanksgiving
    Bill
    • Nov 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    Thankful at Thanksgiving

    What we're thankful for this year.
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    Fabulous Fall
    Bill
    • Sep 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    Fabulous Fall

    A lot of folks love love love summer. And there’s plenty to enjoy - from vacation season to barbecues to long days of sunshine. But fall...
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    Work-a-day worms
    Bill
    • Aug 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Work-a-day worms

    Why don't worms ever take a break and go on vacation?
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    The Protein Incident
    Bill
    • Jul 2, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Protein Incident

    Sometimes you know what you shouldn't do, and yet somehow you end up doing it anyway. I was looking to fatten up a bin of European...
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