Breeding Worms

Tonight there was an interesting magazine feature on TV.The show was about vermiculture-the breeding of worms.I have always been interested in this but do not have the financial resources and time to start a venture.Tried to rear the worms I dug in my garden from what information I read in the Net,but they all died.Guess my knowledge was not good enough.There was an invitation to attend a vermiculture seminar earlier in the year but I couldn't make it. Maybe next time.

The worm farm show on TV was quite a big one but it did not give much technical information.Perhaps they were afraid to reveal their trade secrets.What put me off was the many shots showing the owner of the farm, his workers and even the reporter covering the story,scooping the earth for worms and their eggs without any gloves on.Hey!Didn't they learn Health Science in school.The people working in the worm farm must be infected with worms by now.They should check their stools to find out...

At the end of the programme, all the products of the farm was shown properly packed. There were no scenes to show how these were processed.Two products caught my attention.The face cream and hair oil- both worm extracts.I would feel uneasy using them.Imagine the worms wriggling in your hair or hatching in your face.Not knowing how they are produced, hygienic or not,is another bone of contention.

And I thought vermiculture was the breeding of worms for natural fertilizers, good for organic farming only.