So it's time to look beyond the swiftlet farm. Besides I have a bias towards an eco-lifestyle. That leads to an organic farm utilizing the space around the bird house and the ponds.
Perhaps I should change my blog title to reflect the extension of those activities. "Hobby Farm" sounds appropriate as commercial scale operation is not in mind.
Early this year, I bought some worms for vermi-composting, feeding them with fruit & veggie scraps. The river adjacent to my farm has endless supplies of floating veggies!
Recently, I visited some organic fertilizer producers to get a better perspective to scale that up. Here cow dungs are the raw material. The pit where the dungs are soaked and prepared for the worms.
Racks of plastic containers where the worms chew the dungs away to produce vermi-compost. Each bucket produces 5Kg/mth.
More than 2,000 buckets are housed under sheds - producing 10 tons/mth here.
A spinning cylindrical sieve separates the worms & their castings.
The castings are sun baked for a few hours to reduce moisture content.
Finally packed for distribution.
Worm bed nursery to produce more worms in-house.
Making of worm tea.
Bottled worm tea.
Worm castings are placed in a cloth bag immersed in an aerated tank.
Air-pump supplying oxygen to the tank - quite simple, isn't it?
My own worm nursery got off the ground too! Dampened card boards covered the worm beds to retain moisture besides being food for them too.
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