[Digestion] vermiculture of digested solids

Bryan Sanchez Marcum bsmarcum at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 04:50:39 CST 2010


I dont want to use vermiculture, I just want to see if theres any bacteria
or enzyme that could accelerate biodigestion.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Theo Bijman <T.Bijman at thecogas.nl> wrote:

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> Referring to the question about vermiculture.  Why should you want to use
> vermiculture when you have already digested solid waste that could be
> applied to the fields directly? With raw manure, I could see the advantage,
> as you would get a somewhat dry, concentrated and easy to apply organic
> fertilizer, without the acidifying effect of manure. Is it the reduction in
> volume that is an advantage?  Or are people used to using vermiculture
> organic fertilizer and do not know the usage of digested solid waste? Maybe
> somebody has some thoughts about this. Do you apply liquid waste to the
> composting heaps  (the liquids which remains when separating digistate into
> solids and liquids?) to keep it moist?
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> Matt and listers, Hello,
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> There are two projects in South India doing vermiculture of digestate: SKG
> Sangha and VK-Nardep that have been highlighted on the list, as they both
> won Ashden Awards. There are videos available for both projects, although
> the one for VK-Nardep is a sequence of still photographs taken at the time
> of the judge's visit.
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> The Ashden Award links are: www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha and
> www.ashdenawards.org/winners/vknardep. A direct link to SKG Sangha is:
> www.skgsangha.org and to VK-Nardep is: vknardep.org.
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> Regards,
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> David Fulford
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> On 11/11/2010 01:33, Matt Lorig wrote:
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> There was a project mentioned on the list (maybe a year or two ago) about a
> vermiculture project using the digestate from a biogas plant.  I think it
> was in India.  I think they were using sawdust to soak up the water and
> composting it for a period of time and then introducing the worms.  I can't
> find the link now.  Does anyone remember what I'm talking about?  Or does
> anyone have any info about vermiculture combined with biogas?
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> Matt Lorig
> mattlorig at yahoo.com
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