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~~~ Worm Farming Secrets - http://www.WormFarmingSecrets.com ~~~

Vol 3: Issue: 38 - Wednesday 4th November 2009

Hi Cyndi,

In this issue of "Worm Farming Secrets" we have an in depth

article about a company called Terracycle - specifically the

question asks how this company is able to bottle and sell worm

tea, when bottled worm tea has such a short shelf life as we've

discussed in previous newsletters.

Note that this is not an endorsement of the company itself but

we do provide a brief history given that the reader asked

specifically about this company. We then discuss the bottling

of worm tea in more detail - overall I'm sure you'll find this

article very fascinating indeed ;-0

Before we get onto that...

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DID YOU KNOW?

More about the coelom.

The coelom contains the coelomic fluid which is a milky white

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different upon the humidity of the air. Worms in dry conditions

have thicker fluids then worms in wet habitats. The ceolomic

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The earthworms eject this coelomic fluid through their dorsal

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"If worm tea must be used in a short time after it is made how do

companies like terracycle bottle it and sell it in stores long

after it is made?" ~ Joe Pearce

Hi Joe,

That is a great question, but first of all let me introduce the

company Terracycle.

Terracycle is a great company based in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.

The CEO Tom Szaky got the idea of staring a worm business when he

was 19. He was in Princeton University when he came across some

friends using worms to compost their food scraps, and using the

resulting compost for their growing plants. Thinking it was a

fantastic business opportunity he started to make his own worm

composter to recycle the University's food scraps, and even

dropped out of University to pursue this goal full time.

As time went on, he saw the potential of making money from the

worm tea that the composting process produces.

However the selling point of his worm tea is not the tea product

itself, but it's packaging.

When Tom started off with selling worm tea, he had very limited

funds and so had to find an economical way to package his tea.

This resulted in him finding discarded empty soda bottles,

cleaning them out, re-labeled and repackaged as the 'terracycle

worm poop'.

The product is made out of 100% garbage, from the worm tea to the

packaging, which made it such an attractive product on the

supermarket shelves.

As the company managed to find more funds, their facilities grew

larger and a professor was employed to help create correct

process to create the best tea mix that can be stored for long

periods of time as well as being effective.

Now at 27, Tom Szaky has grew his business supplying large stores

such as home depot nationwide.

Terracycle has also diversified their product range by turning

other rubbish into different usable products and toys. Very

ethical.

Here is a link to his website:

http://www.terracycle.net/?wormfarmingsecrets.com

Now back to your question, how does teracycle produce worm tea

with long shelf-life?

The answer is in its method of brewing the tea. There are many

different ways of brewing worm tea, different methods for

different purposes. I cannot tell you exactly how teracycle

created their worm tea, but I can give you an idea of why it can

be bottled, and then be used effectively in plants.

The most recommended way of brewing compost / worm tea is to have

the compost in a permeable bag suspended in tub of water. The

water in the tub needs to be constantly oxygenated and mixed, and

then a food source is added. The mixing causes the nutrients and

micro-organisms to diffuse into the tub of water, while the food

source encourages the microbes to grow actively and multiply

quickly.

When the active microbes grow quickly the problem starts as they

will consume the oxygen in the tub of water very quickly. If the

microbes use up all the oxygen in the water then it will go

'anaerobic'. The good bacteria will quickly die off, and the bad

bacteria (which survive in non-oxygenated conditions) will start

thriving.

You may think 'since the bad bacteria don't use oxygen, we can

wait for the oxygen levels to go back up and things will be fine

again'. The problem is that once there is a chance for bad

bacteria to grow these microbes will produce phytotoxins, which

when they come into contact with plants, will harm them. It is

almost like the tea already being poisoned.

This is why the constant oxygenating of the tub of water is so

important.

When the tea is constantly oxygenated it provides enough oxygen

as the good microbes grow, and keeps the bad microbes away.

The large quantity of active microbes here is what makes this

type of worm tea so good and beneficial and second of all there

is a good range of different microbes including ciliates,

bacteria, fungi and beneficial nematodes.

The abundance and range makes the tea good for plants and trees,

multiplying in soil and sticking onto leaf and plant surfaces

protecting them from harmful microbes.

However, the downside of the large quantity of microbes makes the

tea incredibly short in shelf-life, with the simple reason that a

bottled tea filled with microbes will use up the oxygen very

quickly and anaerobic microbes will grow.

Worm tea made with oxygenation and food source needs to be used

within approximately 8 hours of being made.

How does Terracycle do it?

The secret is in their microbial value.

Their tea will have to be very low in microbes to be able to be

bottled effectively.

Once bottled, because they have such low or dormant microbial

activity, there is no oxygen consumption within the bottled

product. At this state, the product doesn't go anaerobic, and

ensuring that there are no bad microbes introduced during

bottling, it can be stored for longer.

It will never be as good as fresh worm tea made by the method

above, but it can still benefit plants if made correctly.

Terracycle do oxygenate and stir their tea periodically, however

little or no food source will be added.

Their aim is to allow as much microbes and nutrients to diffuse

from the wormcast into the tea without the microbes being too

active, and to have it oxygenated enough so that bad anaerobes

will not grow and spoil the tea. However with little or no food,

all microbes will die with a few going dormant.

A scientific study on the teracycle worm poop has shown this to

be just the case. When the product was taken out of the bottle

there was little microbial activity. But when the product was

mixed with some food source, microbial life slowly started

replenishing.

Click on the following link for the study, scroll ¾ way down for

the study on teracycle...

http://www.microbeorganics.com/?wormfarmingsecrets.com

This shows that the teracycle worm poop doesn't only provide

nutrients to plants, but when given time for the dormant microbes

to redevelop when applied to soil, the product also helps with

diversifying microbial life.

What this product can't do is to act as a foliar spray since

there will be no active microbes to stick on to leaf surfaces.

In conclusion, well done to terracycle for finding the way to

package their tea.

It is not as good as aerated worm tea with a food source, but

shelf-life does come at a cost, and in the end it does work in

providing benefits to plants.

Kenneth Cheung

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