Tuesday, July 28, 2009

How To Get 12 Puffles Without Being Amember



One of the things to watch in the worm is temperature. Although the worms endure a very comfortable range, cold or intense heat affect your lifestyle, to the point of stopping them. Normally the cold is the most that can affect your worms, because it is complicated to have them inside your home when you are freezing outside. Heat as it is more manageable, you just need to put your Vermiculture in the shade and it will stand quietly.

However, my nephew of 6 years I taught an important lesson. It saw my worms and wanted to have one for him. As I am a guy in full swing, I gave some to begin to see the worm, which best seen from the kid, but his first experience was a little sad. As we are scratching around 44 degrees Celsius during the day, the heat is quite entertaining.

Although I gave the boat was in the shade during the day there was a time when direct sun gave a section of the boat. This made the interior practically cook, so all the worms I gave her life passed away. No way, you have to start again, but I think it is important to mention this: the younger your Vermiculture, the faster it will affected by temperature.

My containers are large, but still had a loss when it dropped an umbrella that covered and there was no one at home (for the moment I'm working out of town). This led to the interior of the tanks almost boiling and remain warm for long. Change ... bastantitas lost, but hey, the point is that the container's size made it not so serious the matter, always had a bit where you could cool.

The problem is that if you have a few worms and a small container, you'd better have it well protected. The sun can take all day to heat mine up make them dangerous for the worm, but yours can be heated up to do a death trap in less than an hour.

not hurt to take this if you have a few worms and a small container. The worm can not give much, but when it does, beware of the consequences ...

Friday, July 17, 2009

Average Longevity Of A Stick Of Deodorant

Heat Marketing: Presentation

In the last entry you can dress like promote your home Vermiculture ; well and you're doing or not, but you'll see that it works and works quite well.

Since you know how to promote your Vermiculture, it's time to see how to present your products to your prospective clients worm. I say likely because whoever comes to ask directly that wave with the worms and humus, you normally purchase. It is good that you know, whether heard, for you or watching your plants.

Before continuing, remember this is for home worm, facilities for commercial vermiculture have another situation.

The presentation of humus, whether liquid or solid, should be in small quantities. Many believe that the best thing is to have a lot and sell it by volume, but the reality is that, for quantities that can occur with the worm home, sold by volume takes you to lose money. Sell \u200b\u200b

volume means selling cheap. A commercial facility can do it because it produces a lot and is interested in getting rid of that inventory. As I produce little, it's best to sell a few bags faces, someone to cook so I buy low and leaves me with nothing.

For example, if you have 20 kilos of humus, well you can sell a kilo bag 1 to $ 2 (or more, depending on how much greed for you.) Someone can come in and tell you to buy everything, but to .50 per kilo. It's good because you sell everything at once, but you lose a good.

I never sell by volume. I do not care to get rid of a few bags that just I take up space in the house. Better I hope to sell all those bags at a time, after all, between now and get back to having humus will spend a few months. Of course I have friends who then want to take a lot and I can not say no, but usually I avoid it. Not only can you earn more, but you can make more customers.

There are people who are looking for and to me it makes me sad because I have to give. A couple of bags of humus go like water, sometimes even I run out humus for my plants. In short, I sell small quantities and they earn more. Same and see that the volume is good and gives you to do business worm, but that is another thing.

The worms, you can sell in any container plastic (I use cans of a kilo of yogurt or butter), while the lid has holes so you can enter the air. Just do not let him in the dark because they can get. The idea is to sell a kilo of worms with humus.

course will not be a kilo of pure worm, but the bacteria in the humus and buds that are worth the price there.

course you can make hunting the worms one by one, but that's a lot of work and if you do, you better cash it right.

You see, in the worm home, what little is good, as I mentioned in last entry, there is no way to beat the business premises, crushed you dying of laughter. Here, Vermiculture products you are focused on two very specific market niches: the "green" and "organic." You've probably seen stories of artists who "just use spring water" or "only drink milk from cows fed native grass."

These people are willing to buy your product because, unlike others, we can see. My friends know my process, you know where I have worms and I know they are eating. The confidence they have in my make sell them a breeze. They want it, I have it is good product, everybody wins. That gives you the opportunity to sell your product more expensive than the super.

So promote your Vermiculture and have small presentations. Do not waste your time with people who complain about the price, I never under anything. If you do not want the mine to buy MiracleGro or something else. I leave my products for those who want the natural and know the difference. So they are happy and me too.

course this is just an idea, you will know what is best for you, as I mentioned in an entry in this series, in vermiculture home, we all have different circumstances.

Finally, put your worms to work and make you stay, free food Enough! Well, here ends my series of marketing home vermiculture. If you think otherwise, set it to comment, on balance, this is it.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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Marketing: How to Promote La Casera

Now comes the good ... If you already have the products and you have your operation seriously, how do you sell that? At first, there are a few things to consider:

can not compete with commercial facilities. At this point, I consider myself pretty good with worms. I can raise them, play them, them out a lot of products, make people dance and talk English. Well, the last two did not, but the point is that any commercial facility worm, however humble, I would make small pieces and I would feed your worms. I have neither the space nor the volume to even tickle.

not sell all year. At least not here. With temperatures of 4 degrees Celsius in winter, there's hardly any people who want to grow, as well as the worms are warm and ball made me want to go on strike if put to work. This is a matter of time.

is an extra income. I have touched some people who want to make worm to be your primary source income, but that is talking about a commercial Vermiculture. The Vermiculture home, by their nature, do not give you enough to live it.

And with that, now the interesting thing: how to commercialize?

installation in a home worm, better and more profitable to sell at retail. As I mentioned earlier, there is no way to beat trade humus producers. It is noteworthy that this is not bad, the retail gives you excellent value and is a matter of cash, no bills, loans or rolls of those. Moreover, you keep all the profits.

So, first of all, you have to advertise. Go to your local television, pay chorrocientosmil campaign dollars or can be more subtle. All he sells are the results. For example, give a ride to this post a while ago, a comparison humus soil against . You see there, the comparison makes the difference.

Put two pots and one uses the humus and other land in the plain little. Among your neighbors and friends, shows the difference and say why. Anyone with a garden or potted plants, you'll want your product. The best part is that yours is organic humus and craft, so you can sell anything you want. I recommend you check the prices on the market and put in your harvest. After all, if you want plants nice, they pay. Not many suppliers of organic humus.

In the case of the homemade worm, simply spread the word. I have touched many people who see my stuff and always ask "is there" or "your plants look good." The worm is a bizarre and arouses curiosity among the people, whether or not to buy, but remains in the mind. That person, when you see a friend or acquaintance you have plants, you can remember and tell about your plants are beautiful and you make your own compost.

there who told me I'm crazy, but most are curious about and everything is there. The idea is that I promotion in your neighborhood. The worm home gives you only a certain amount of humus and is sufficient to sell a small number of people, for example, among your neighbors and acquaintances.

There are other ways, but this is the one I use and that any lombricultor home can handle without much trouble. Just talk with neighbors and show your results, preferably in front of your home. Everyone likes a beautiful garden and if you give them your "secret" to have something similar, some would want to buy.

Although there are other ways of promoting yourself, this is the most effective in terms of cost, because you do not spend anything and sales that do not require delivery, travel or anything special. Engagement with higher sales volume or selling to stores is a labor for commercial vermiculture and other factors entering hardly going to be able to handle as a landlord.

In the next post you'll see some pricing strategies and presentation.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Lombricultura Marketing: From Products sells

In the previous entry ( sells The Vermiculture: Preparation ), I commented about what you need to know before you can sell a residential installation.

In this post you'll see the products you can get a home vermiculture installation, even if they seem obvious, you might see some you will not have occurred.

Humus. Probably any vermiculture facility produces and one of the best fertilizer in the world, especially because it is as natural as what you feed the worms. It is well known but it is relatively difficult to implement when compared to other things. Here we must mention that there humus "live" humus "dead."

  • Humus vivo. It contains beneficial bacteria, organic matter decomposition and probably some worms and cocoons. This can be used to retrieve soil, especially in gardens with parts "fresh", where there is permanent shadow (shrubs, ornamental plants large leaves). When properly implemented, can get a garden "alive." It is not good in direct sunlight because the worms die, the bacteria and are born containing seeds or spores. Humus
  • "not alive." This is processed to have nothing live, either sunny or additional heat. This is most commonly you can get at the supermarket and, while it gives you minerals and consistency, it provides no bacteria or anything additional. Easier to implement than the previous one, because no matter where you put it. Humus
liquid. This put it aside because it is much easier to implement than its solid counterpart, but no good results for soil reclamation, as it has no solid matter. However, as foliar fertilizer and irrigation is in full swing, as it requires no physical work as the solid vermicompost.

Worms. Although here (Mexico) do not see used very often, can sell the excess worms, you'll always have when you worm, unless you tell them not having their affair, but I do not think they'll do case. The worms can be used to fish, feeding them to exotic and not so exotic as turtles, mice, lizards, frogs, fish and lots of other things. All these animals are eaten with gusto and worms are a great source of protein and Omega 3. Also you can eat the you, but since there are not many who dare ...

Waste management. Although more for vermiculture facilities with sufficient capacity, you can offer to give you their ecological organic waste, after giving them a dizzying roll of why it is good to recycle. That gives you food for your worms and you can even charge for the trash, only to have to go to pick it up and look out for that not come anything that could hurt your worms. I do not like it, but it is another option.

Education. If you become a master of worm, it can charge for giving courses or something. Although not many people with an interest here (again, Mexico) to pay, is another option.


You see, there are many other ways to get some wool to the worm, but when you have something small is difficult to please everyone. Finally, you can consider these ways to get money from the worm and in the next post you'll see some ways to market it.


Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Sarcodosis & Depression

Vermiculture The Vermiculture: Preparation

In places where we talk about worm, many messages are on the market. Well, who would not want to turn trash into cash? It would be something like the Sorcerer's Stone (not Harry Potter), who turned lead into gold. However, once you get to the worms and feed them, a result that does not get the wool as perhaps expected. Here the issue is to have a strategy and see where you are.

As I have been asked several times and it occurred to me anything to write, put a series dedicated to pure marketing. Only with the addition of my blog is a worm home, many of the things I put here would not apply to a commercial facility for the production of humus and worms.

To give an example, I'll start with me. I produce little. I have no space and I live in the city, so many of my worms will feed the fish (I have an installation acuapĆ³nica), the Machiavellian use in experiments and the humus is usually going to my plants for organic farming. However, I also made money with this, in fact, I have been wrong with my clients because they just hummus and I have to sell ... In short, I have a home installation which is based on my garbage and sell the excess humus.

In my case, is not exactly a business, but could be if I had the time and a little more space to do so. The point here is that you have to take stock of your circumstances. In home installations, NO is like another, we all have certain things that lead us to do things differently.

So begins your current situation. We must remove some things like

Facilities. For a Vermiculture, you need a place to live earthworms, are comfortable and allows you to work. If you're in the worm, you probably already have with this, otherwise there you need to do and how you can invest in this.

fixed costs. In home vermiculture facilities, major fixed costs are water, food and lime, if you use it. Everything else is costly, the containers have a shelf life and do not require anything in particular until they fall apart. Depending on your installation, electrical energy may also be a cost, but not very common.

Labour. Ugh ... But hey, someone has to. Usually not a lot of work driving home vermiculture facility, but no longer something that takes time or money, if to hire someone. However, in the case of a residential installation, you can work as a cost to zero. If you meddle as accounting, may have a cost, but the reality is that unless you pay someone, do not have, on balance, anyway you do it for free.

Production. Here we must draw the worms as they eat a certain amount of time. A rule of thumb, a worm eats its body weight per day, so if you have a kilo of worms, are supposed to eat a kilo of food. The reality is that it goes well, the worm humus recycles itself, leave things that are not yet ready for consumption and dedicate part of their chacotear time with the other worms to lombricitas. I would say that 80% would be more realistic, so that for every kilo, consumed 800 grams of food. With this you can get more or less a certain amount of humus you have available, but it is best to try.


What are your expectations of this as a business? If at home, you have some, because, for all practical purposes, everything that comes out is profit. Why? Just think about it. In itself, we worm home to recycle, not so much to make money. Use the compost in your garden is a source of pride and happiness to see beautiful plants, but not necessarily income. If it anyway Free make any money there is fall in extra income.

In the next post you'll see that you can sell your worms. As I mentioned earlier, this series is focused on home vermiculture facilities.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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change ... over a month with nothing ... Anyway, I grabbed for a project and I had no time to see the worms. The good thing is that they do not complain and, while still leaving household waste, will be happy. That's why I like worms, so can not give.

Today I just want to make a short comment about the quality of humus. This is closely related to what the worms eat and how it is given. By "tradition" like me who like worms, there is a tendency to think that the worm compost, either, is the best thing on earth and the thing is that it is not.

Like all good and there is humus humus crappy, there are commercial vermiculture home with their own food formulas to be, relatively accurately, quantities of each nutrient that plants use. He once spent a program about earthworms where it changes their color.

Well, the joke is that when you do all home, know exactly how you will exit the humus is practically impossible. We use many organic wastes no pattern, really is what we want and now. One day you throw them all perfect and other days not giving them anything because they called pizza and ate it all and neither the board left.

The homemade hummus, made with organic waste, has, in my experience, a number of medium to high, depending on food. This is because the worms have a "balanced diet" with a lot of things, so more or less get something decent.

worms in commercial vermicomposting facilities, who spend consuming manure, humus produce excellent, because the composition of what they eat. So far, I've always seen that the humus of commercial facilities is better than home.

Finally, the compost made of pure paper and newspaper, it's pretty crappy, barely above the potting soil. Nor can you ask a lot, poor worms ate pure ink, so they can not get much quality.

This may sound medium to discouragement for you if you want to start a Vermiculture, but the reality is no. The worms are basically to process your trash, so that the humus is almost a gift. Also, if you eat well, you might have a quality humus. The only one I've seen that really is bad is the newspaper pure humus, but hopefully you're not thinking about them just that. Feed them well and

surely have very good results.