Welcome to Black Diamond Vermicompost
Est. 2010
IT ALL STARTS IN THE SOIL
Black Diamond Vermicompost supplies one of the most important components for successful crops, whether it’s a container garden on your deck, a back yard garden or a highly productive farm. We are producers of some of the finest vermicompost in the country.
What is vermicompost? Simply put, it’s a soil amendment made by worms. “Vermi” is Latin for Worm. Add “compost” to it and you get worm compost! But it’s much more than the words suggest. This stable, mature and biologically active product is the result of the proprietary processes we use to prepare the worms’ food, as well as the state-of-the-art environment the worms live in. They live in a worm palace!
What’s in the vermicompost, after the worms go through their special food for several weeks, is a living product that is full of beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and humic compounds. This biology actually comes from the unique microflora of the worms gut! This relates to the ecological role of the earthworm in the soil food web, which is to shred decaying organic matter into pieces more palpable for microbes. When they secrete their castings, the organic matter has been reduced to a finer material and inoculated by the worm’s gut, ready to continue the decomposition process in the soil - increasing the stockpile of available nutrients, plant growth hormones, enzymes, vitamins, and active carbon. Yes, we see a tomato plant die at Fall’s first frost and are reminded that death is a constant in nature, but we don’t have to fixate on that. The soil all around you is alive and its duty is to serve as the miraculous medium in which our sustenance is produced if we are so generous to tend to it properly. It takes life to make life! Nature operates in abundance and life, not scarcity and death. If you can make that paradigm shift in thought and action, the mighty earthworm and its rich castings will grow nearer and dearer to your heart.
When your soil is a balanced combination of minerals, microbiology, organic matter, pH, air, and quality water, you have the recipe for nutrient dense food crops, fabulous, fragrant flower production, mouth-watering fruit, vigorous turf and pastureland, all with a minimum of pest or disease pressure. Embark on your soil health journey today.
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You read it right…Black Diamond Vermicompost is currently being used in trials to grow food for our astronauts! Read the entire Abstract by clicking the button below.