You Have to Love What You Do; to Drive 200 Miles for Poo.

Today's garden shop adventure is pretty exciting stuff. Ever since the vermicompost clinic out at The Elk Grove Community Garden last summer, I've been wanting to carry this black gold in the store. (Can you now hear the Beverly Hillbilly jingle in your head?)

Last Fall I also took a 10 week course in everything to do with green gardening and once again, vermicompost was up there on the top of the list of must haves.

So that leads me to today, when Vic and I drove to Petaluma to meet up with Dave from Mass Wiggle. Dave gave us the million dollar tour of his worm composting facility. "Largest worm facility west of the Mississippi" touts Dave.The tour really was fascinating, how they take cow manure, rice hulls and tree chips and turn that into premium compost. This mixture is turned 5 times over the course of 30 days, and then it's fed to Dave's worms. Dave's 200 million worms live in specially designed 3 story condos in an old converted dairy barn! 

Another month or so of feeding the worms and harvesting their (ahem) poo and then it's on through the various conveyor belts and tumbling drums until finally out falls the most beautiful stuff I've ever seen. (Poetic license used here). The end result looks and feels like finely ground coffee. There isn't any odor and it is packed full of healthy microbes.

So we "loaded up the truck" and crawled through traffic back to Elk Grove carrying our 1100 lb load of premium, ready for your garden, vermicompost. We'll have it bagged up and ready for sale by the weekend so you can get it in your garden. Your plants and vegetables will thank you. Like I said, we love what we do, and we do it for YOU!