I have learned very much from this course. I have decided i am going to do a small worm bin soon so in preperation I ordered an online audio course on worm composting from this site () as I knew nothing about it worm composting. I have 2 small raised beds there that are 3 yrs old, mostly composted old hay, horse poop, leaves and straw so its pretty rich in humus soil. I no longer garden on a big scale in tx as I stay in an rv park in the winter only. Over the yrs i have seen some earth worms in the soil, more as the soil improved but never the amount that i have seen in the soil in the midwest. Have gardened in various ways, always with no pesticides. I spent almost 30 yrs in south tx near mcallen. The worm farm maintained contact with the soil, since, I believed the conditions I provided were better than the surroundings, I noticed no decrease in population from doing this, and if any stragglers came by, they could join the worm orgy, roman food fest. The worms found it easily, in six months, I had bajillions of worms in a worm farm. I have coaxed worms out of soil by just putting a food scrap/yard litter pile in a shady spot, and watering when it needed it. I wish I could remember where I saw that video, if any one knows what one I am talking about please share. He pretty much transformed his whole farm this way to lush pastures and credits this process for his success. He uses that as a worm incubator of sorts to spread them to parts of his property without much fertility. He would use that "plug" of good soil and dig a hole in a crappy spot, fill with plug. His strategy was to take a small chunk of earth (maybe a spade shovel round hole, so about 15" wide and shovel depth) with the grass and other plants that were growing, that was rich with humus and worms. I saw a video of a guy in Australia I believe.
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