Boulder Compost To Cease Selling Redworms
February 21st, 2009
From their website:
After many years of selling earthworms, we have decided to stop selling them. We promoted vermicomposting as a way for people to compost if they did not have room for a backyard compost pile or a collection service was not available. We are happy to see that collection services are now available to everyone. We think the easiest, most effective way to reach zero-waste is to have your compostables collected and composted by a professional company.
More on the decision of the Boulder Compost folks to stop selling earthworms.
I am of two minds about this.
On the one hand, scale often leads to efficiency, and composting is no different than other businesses in that. And I sympathize with Eric; separating worms for sale is tedious even with the appropriate equipment.
On the other hand, worm composting is one of the ways to re-connect yourself to biological processes that folks in the USA (especially in cities) have become more and more removed from. (Gardening is another.) And I would argue that having trucks cart compostables around is less sustainable than small, on-your-patio worm composting.
Best of luck to Boulder Compost as they pursue a different path.
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