The Earthworm Farmer's Bible: The Complete Guide to Successful Composting with Red Wiggler Earthworms

Dr. Merrill has written numerous books andnovels. In this book the author shares hisextensive experience in vermiculture and hislifelong passion for organic gardening withthe reader.We believe this to be the most comprehensivebook ever written on earthworm farming andorganic gardening.Dr. Merrill tells you how to raise earthworms,what to feed composting earthworms andhow to harvest and process the valuable wormcastings your earthworms will produce. Youdont have to invest a lot of money on wormsor expensive bins to compost your kitchenwaste and newspapers at home. You may besurprised to learn that you can get started forless than the cost of a couple of cups of coffee at Starbucks. In fact, you dont haveto spend a dime on earthworms Dr. Merrill tells you where to get them for free.Yes, for free and your initial worm bins can be purchased from any hardware storefor less than $10.00!For those who are interested in a larger commercial worm farming operation,the author tells you how to achieve your goal, again, at far less expense thanyou might expect. As Dr. Merrill says You dont have to invest thousandsof dollars on worms and expensive equipment to make a lot of money in anearthworm farming business.

Dr. Merrill's family were pioneers of the Seventh Day Adventist Colony in Eel Rock, California, in 1933. Eel Rock is located above the banks of the majestic North Fork of the Eel River, about twenty miles upriver from its junction with the South Fork at Dyersville. Because of the educational limitations of this sparsely populated rural area, the Merrill's moved to Myers Flat on the more populous South Fork of the Eel in 1958. Dr. Merrill graduated from the South Fork High School in 1955 and received a BA in Physiology from the University of California at Berkeley, four years later. When Dr. Merrill graduated from the University of Southern California Medical School in 1963, he became the first person from Southern Humboldt County to become a medical doctor. After completing his internship and a year of surgical residency in California, Dr. Merrill moved to Minnesota, where he performed his Urology Residency under the late Don Creevy at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center in Minneapolis. He completed a National Institutes of Health Special Fellowship in Urology in 1969 and joined the university's Urology faculty in 1971. In 1973, Dr. Merrill was recruited by the University of California at Davis to administer their Urology Residency program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinez, California. Dr. Merrill served as chief of Urology at that institution until its closure in 1991. Dr. Merrill and his wife, Tina, have two daughters. They have lived in the Bay Area for the past thirty-nine years. Dr. Merrill has written numerous books and articles pertaining to the field of urology and several books on subjects not related to the medical field, as noted in the last pages of this book. This is his first work of fiction.