worms in your city

Hey gang,

If you're thinking in the new year you'd like to make some changes in your lifestyle, why not start by buying some worms and helping to cut down on the 40% of our waste that goes to landfills instead of being used more efficiently as soil in healthy gardens. A nice low maintenance, bin of scrap food eating friends. Not sure where to find them in your neck of the woods? I have done a search for resources available in different cities to make it easier for you to find your new red wiggler friends.

I found mine on kijiji in Toronto from a guy named Jason under the home and garden section. There is also an extensive list of worm suppliers to many different cities on the city farmer website at:  

http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormsupl79.html

If you're living in Montreal, you're lucky enough to have available to you a worm swap. Sustainable Concordia will sell you worms and all the equipment needed to vermicompost and will buy your worms back from you as they reproduce. Genius! This way you can compost and provide others with the ability to compost without having to do all the legwork of finding someone to buy your worms. I wouldn't depend on the cash flow to pay rent but you will be able to make the money that you initially spent on the worms back. Also in Montreal two websites that may be of use are:

http://wormgirlmontreal.wordpress.com/vermicomposting-101/ 

http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/en/info_verte/fiches/vers.htm

If you're an East coaster you can find worms to be shipped to you at:

http://www.wormfirm.ns.ca/

If you're living in our country's capital region check out:

http://www.capitalwormranch.com/servlet/StoreFront

Living further west? Don't worry Alberta there are worms for you as well. Lucky you Calgary! Your city has a nice pamphlet for you to look at and offers workshops to help reduce your waste!

http://www.wormsatwork.com/ 

http://www.greencalgary.org/images/uploads/File/Vermicomposting.pdf

Edmonton you have resources too:

http://www.edmonton.ca/for_residents/garbage_recycling/worm-composting.aspx

And for our friends in Vancouver you have the option of buying a discounted vermicompost bin from the city and taking a one hour workshop to better understand it. 

The hotline number is

604-736-2250

I know there are cities left out and for you folks I suggest searching your cities on:

www.craigslist.org
www.kijiji.ca

or check out

http://www.cathyscomposters.com/

If I've left any place out that you know of please share.

I hope that this list will be useful to some of you particularly if your resolutions this year involved having a great garden due to your healthy soils, helping the environment by cutting down your amount of waste sent to landfills, or just learning something new!