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MIFFS women in agriculture vermicomposting project
A vermicomposting project on a Flint area women’ s development farm has been established to help improve soil and plant health, and build community self-reliance.
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The forgotten pioneers of the soil food web
There’ s a saying that goes“ that which is old becomes new again.” Nature itself renews and recycles dead material back into useful and productive soil. Microbial life in a food web recycles the old, the dead by using it as food [...] Recently Nina discovered the work of Raoul Heinrich Francé and his wife Annie Francé-Harrar who in the early 20th century were counting, identifying and recording soil microbiology in the soil food web.
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The double wonder of worms— research shows vermicomposting can produce cleaner soil and animal feed
In North America, a whopping 30 to 40 per cent of our residential waste is organic— biodegradable garbage that could be composted but is often sent to landfills.
With governments like Quebec ' s looking to ban organic waste from landfills by 2020, we need to act fast to reduce the amount of food scraps we ' re throwing out.
A study recently published in Waste Management by researchers from Concordia ' s Faculty of Arts and Science shows that one method of composting could yield high quality compost and high value by-products. The catch? There are worms involved.
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