Worm Composting

Lately I have been receiving a number of emails as to why we do not offer worm tea made from organic worm castings. In reality we do, however allow me to explain.

From a starting point I wrote another article pertaining to worm castings and the need for oxygen. In short, most are shipping these out in sealed plastic sandwich type baggies. The problem arises when taking into account that the reason worm castings are so beneficial are the number of live beneficial microbes. If you seal off oxygen, you kill off the microbes. If the worm castings are permitted to dry out, you kill off the microbes…

Hence this is why all our 1lb and larger worm castings are shipped priority mail in breathable bags!

Now when you make worm tea from organic worm castings what you are basically doing is exponentially exploding the number of beneficial microbes. Once again these are live organisms which require oxygen and a food supply to stay alive. In fact, brewing worm tea is nothing like brewing tea you and I would drink. It does not require heat for the brewing process but rather loads of oxygen and food which is readably eatable by the beneficial microbes.

After brewing for 24 hours, you end up with super charged plant food which is loaded with millions of microbes, all needing to maintain an oxygen and food supply.

Imagine taking an aquarium pump and turning it off, the over time the fish will begin dying off. Now imagine millions of fish crowded in the same fish tank with no room to swim and turning the aerator off. The fish would begin to die almost immediately and soon you will have an aquarium with nothing left but dead fish and a rotten stench.

The same holds true for the microbes within worm tea.

So in short, if we bottled the worm tea and sold it as others do, by the time it arrived and was used, it would be useless and most likely and full of malicious bacteria and fungus that can actually harm your plants.

This is why we do brew worm tea but sell it locally for pickup orders only on the same day the brew is finished.

Organic Worm Farm does offer a solution for anyone looking to brew their own worm tea, worm casting tea bags, shipped in breathable bags via priority mail. These are the same worm castings used by Organic Worm Farm to make worm tea for use on our own gardens as well as sold locally.

If you happen to be looking for readymade worm tea in the Pickens, Greenville area of South Carolina, simply contact us and we will tell you how to get some! Otherwise, try brewing your own tea as it is not difficult and will not smell!

Bruce