A year ago, a friend told Katie Eibner about a local service that offers customers a five-gallon bucket of “gold” in exchange for a year’s worth of kitchen scraps. That seemed like a great deal, so the Belmont Greene mother of three signed up right away.
Now Eibner is deciding what to do with her bounty, which was delivered to her door by a Loudoun-based company called Worm Works LLC.
“My husband wants to save it for his favorite trees in our backyard,” she said.
That’s because Eibner’s industrial-sized bucket was filled with something farmers and gardeners call black gold, a natural, nutrient-rich soil additive that turbocharges plant growth, thanks to a powerful component: worm castings, or – perhaps more simply – worm poop.
To read the rest of the story about the local residents behind Worm Works and how they are trying to help the world one bucket at a time, click here and head over to the Ashburn Magazine website.
(Image at top: Katie Eibner and her family)