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Women Want to Open a Huge can of Worms
By: Cathy Nesbitt    Thursday, Apr 26, 2012
http://www.thestar.com/videozone/1120840--composting-with-worms Article by Barbara Turnbull, Life Reporter, Toronto Star Cathy Nesbitt, of Bradford, Ont., is Canada’s queen of the crawlers. Through her vermicomposting business, Cathy’s Crawly Composters, she sells red wigglers to homeowners for composting, works the birthday-party circuit and speaks of wormy virtues to schools and garden societies. Maria Rodriguez, of Guatamala City, runs an 8,600-square-foot worm farm through her organization, Byoearth, where she breeds worms and produces fertilizer to sell to non-proft ...Read More
Resident Aims to Help Poor Worm Their Way Out of Poverty.
By: Cathy Nesbitt    Thursday, Apr 26, 2012
Conditions: Healthy Food through Healthy Soil
Article & Photo by: Sean Pearce Where there’s a worm there’s a way. That’s the hope of Bradford’s Cathy Nesbitt who you may know from her business Cathy’s Crawly Composters. She was recently contacted by Maria Rodriguez, the executive director of Byoearth Guatemala, to provide assistance and her somewhat unique expertise to help the organization set up a vermicomposting operation near the largest garbage dump in that country’s capital city. “They’re trying to eradicate extreme poverty in Latin America,” Ms Nesbitt said. ...Read More
Wormy Lesson for Students
By: Cathy Nesbitt    Thursday, Apr 26, 2012
Conditions: Healthy Food through Healthy Soil
Article by: Elora Crawford Young students at St. Alfred Catholic School learned a squirmy lesson in composting while welcoming their new friends — Red Wiggler worms — into the classroom. Composting bins containing worms were installed in each classroom of the Mississauga school on Feb. 28 as part of a program funded by TD Friends of the Environment Foundation. “Seeing projects that engage youth in their local environment is always exciting and it’s encouraging to see students excited about reducing waste in their schools,” said Mary Desjardins, executive director  ...Read More
Organic Magic with Worms
By: Cathy Nesbitt    Thursday, Apr 26, 2012
Conditions: Healthy Food through Healthy Soil
Vermicomposting, or worm composting, is an excellent way to convert household garbage into nutrient rich fertilizer. Cathy, from Cathy’s Crawly Composters, visited students at St. Alfred’s Catholic School on Tuesday, February 28th, to explain how composting with specialty worms, known as Red Wigglers, is a clean and environmentally friendly way to save tonnes of waste from going to landfill. Cathy and the children made up a worm bed using a container with air holes, a mixture of shredded paper products, a liter of soil with micro-organisms, some egg shells or lime, about 1.5 ...Read More
Avoiding Environmental Causes of Disease
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Jan 26, 2012
Conditions: drug induced lupus, systemic autoimmune disorder, systemic lupus
Ours is a chemical world. Besides the additives and preservatives designed to keep our food fresh, we're inundated with dioxin used to bleach paper products and DEHP which renders plastic flexible while acting as an endocrine disruptor. By fooling our body into thinking it's an estrogen compound, DEHP and DINP play havoc with our immune systems and our hormones. Having worked in medicine for thirty years, I can clearly see the results of the post World War II chemical revolution. The number of individuals affected with autoimmune disease has skyrocketed. For practically every pharmaceutical ...Read More
The Great Garbage Dump in the Sea.
By: Alister Bredee    Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012
Conditions: The health hazards of slow bio-degrading plastic.
“The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” was discovered accidentally by yachtsman Charles Moore and his crew, who decided to take a shortcut back home to California, after competing in a sailing race to Hawaii. Their 1997 shortcut took them into an area of the North Pacific known as the “doldrums”. This region of high atmospheric pressure has been historically avoided by mariners because it is renowned for a lack of wind that becalmed sailing ships. It is a zone where many maritime current converge, creating a slow vortex. This whirlpool effect sucks floating filth from the ...Read More
5 Dirty Facts About Mold
By: VitalityLink Finder    Sunday, Dec 25, 2011
1. Bleach or Kilz will not kill mold and are not EPA registered mold products 2. Moisture in your walls or attic, even in small amounts, creates mold growth 3. If your home flooded or roof leaked, the moisture may not dry on its own 4. Removing moldy drywall and installing new will not keep mold away 5. Only a certified moisture inspection determines if your building is dry. If it is not dry, mold will return Many claim to be mold specialists and have never been formally trained. Several homeowners have paid good money for mold remediation only to have mold return. This is usually due to a ...Read More
Carbon Monoxide: A Deadly Poison
By: VitalityLink Finder    Sunday, Dec 25, 2011
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gas found as a by-product in combustion fumes, such as those produced by generators, small gasoline engines, stoves, lanterns, and gas ranges, or by burning charcoal and wood. CO from these sources can build up in enclosed or partially enclosed spaces such as your home, office, garage, car, caravan, or boat. People and animals in these enclosed spaces can be poisoned and can die from breathing CO. CO Poisoning Health Risks Symptoms of CO poisoning include headaches, dizziness, disorientation, nausea, fatigue, vomiting, chest pain, and confusion. According to the ...Read More
Learning to Love Worms
By: Cathy Nesbitt    Saturday, Jul 02, 2011
Cathy Nesbitt, of Cathy s Crawly Composters, holds up a model of a worm, in front of students at St. Charles School. Learning to love worms Photo and story by Miriam King, Bradford Times Of all of the thousands of types of worms, red wigglers are the best for vermi- (worm) composting, Cathy Nesbitt told a group of students in grades 4 to 6 at St. Charles' School. That's because they are voracious eaters, eating half their own weight in food every day. Ordinary composting - allowing moisture, warmth and bacteria to break down organic matter into compost - is "boring!" Nesbitt said. Using the ...Read More
Worm Poop = Green Business Gold
By: Cathy Nesbitt    Saturday, Jul 02, 2011
Cathy Nesbitt has taken a common recycling problem and turned it into green business gold by helping consumers compost their organic waste with the help of worms. This green entrepreneur has learned a thing or two about marketing and building a green business in a slow economy and we wanted to know what those lessons were. Can you tell us a bit more about Cathy’s Crawly Composters? At Cathy’s Crawly Composters we raise red wiggler worms for worm composting purposes. Worms are going to play an ever-increasing role in waste management and soil production. We believe that the ...Read More