By: Enicia Fisher (Feb 25, 2009)
Our homeschool Young Naturalist Club visited Da-Le Ranch last week to learn about vermiculture and vermicomposting. Dave was a wonderful tour guide and host and it was worth the drive. (Part of the fun was driving down a dirt road for over four miles, through our beautiful CA foothills).

Dave taught us a lot about how worms can help reduce our carbon footprint, while transforming kitchen scraps to wonderful soil enrichment that can be used to help the garden grow our own local organic FRESH and NUTRITIOUS food! He related well to the kids and had lots of information and inspiration to share.

My favorite part of the visit was watching all the kids circled around a huge pile of worm castings, digging contentedly and making tunnels in the poop.

We bought a small "TurboBin" to use as a breeding box at home, along with 2 pounds of red wigglers to add to our existing worm bins. Dave's publication that comes with the TurboBin is a great resource. I encourage anyone interested in organic gardening or composting to visit Dave and would recommend his products to those who might be ordering online too.

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