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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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