There's gold in them thar critters.
JUAN de HERRERA, Dominican Republic.- The earthworms have changed the economic profile of the municipality Juan Herrera, San Juan province (west) from a project which such good results the U.S. Embassy selected it as a model project in the Southern region.
It began at yearend 2004 from an initiative of Dominican Research and Development Institute, in alliance with the Juan Herrera City Council and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The Juan de Herrera Organic Fertilizer factory uses the humus from earthworms to make a clean, high quality fertilizer.
The RD$2 million project’s minimal infrastructure includes a shed and a production area of nine tanks and a reservoir to collect drainage water, yielding a liquid fertilizer of excellent properties. To initiate the project the Factory bought 260,000 Californian earthworms, which are already produced in the country.
The small earthworms, which are efficient in converting waste into organic humus, don’t like the heat, for which the channels must be watered several times daily.
The plant produces 360 quintals of humus in each cycle and around 100 quintals monthly if demand requires it.
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Josean gusanos for you !
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2009 12:28 PM
From: United States
Anthony c has never looked better!
Written by: curlando, 26 Oct 2009 1:56 PM
From: United States, Bronx
They need to covert those worms to food. People are straving in DR.
Written by: oupala07 
, 26 Oct 2009 2:09 PM
From: Canada
We don't do that in Haiti
Written by: xwill7, 26 Oct 2009 2:26 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
worm mudcakes?
Written by: oupala07 , 26 Oct 2009 2:29 PM
From: Canada
If I had to choose, I'd prefer mud cakes to earthworms. Yaaaaaaakk!!
Written by: oupala07 , 26 Oct 2009 2:33 PM
From: Canada
What a shame! Their country like mine is sitting on a huge reservoir of oil, but it is not yours: it is the IMF oil.
They will starve you then enslave you, it is all planned fellows.
Written by: vacanos, 26 Oct 2009 3:29 PM
From: United States, An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
If I get a hand of a pic of Jossie eating worn I will post it here.
Written by: abc200, 26 Oct 2009 4:23 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
Josean:
You kook kind of cute in this picture !
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2009 5:41 PM
From: United States
Rubi,
Did you know, that like you, Earthworms are hermaphrodites!
Written by: vacanos, 26 Oct 2009 6:33 PM
From: United States, An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Por fin que regreso la lombri para delertarnos con su relajos aburrido :ROLL:
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2009 6:43 PM
From: United States
¡Y como te gustan, tú vives por ellos!
Written by: ateo1992 , 26 Oct 2009 9:32 PM
From: Dominican Republic
i love this stuFFFF :D!
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
A great initiative and one we should truly emulate.
Win/Win situation, no matter how you might spin it.
From: Dominican Republic, San Carlos, barrio de matatanes, aqui no invente
Last time I saw a worm like that, it had a hook in it.
rodney i miss you
Written by: fedadiaz , 28 Oct 2009 10:15 AM
From: Dominican Republic
SELL THEM TO HAITIANS...... So it is good and boneless meat......no more clay cookies.
Josean vas a comer carne. lol
Written by: josean, 28 Oct 2009 1:11 PM
From: United States
Show you are back Sheriff Buford!
Written by: oupala07 , 29 Oct 2009 6:21 AM
From: Canada
fedadiaz,
We Haitians may be poor but we don't take food from our neighbour mouth to feed ourselves, besides we don't eat earthworms in our country. You the Dominicans are really master denialers. Your people are eating earthworm and they are selling them to each other and you are joking about it, what kind of mentally retarded are you?
Once again, your country like mine is sitting on a huge oil reserve and instead of asking your government why it hasn't been exploited in order to bring prosperity to your people, all you find to do is to throw silly jokes in the air.
I am very glad I am not your countryman, it would have given me some real doubt about my mental stability.
From: Dominican Republic, PROUD & Glad to have a Spanish last name and ancestry
oupalao7,
Where are getting the idea the worms are for eating? They are for decomposing! Can't you read?
For the ones who do not know:
-Dominican Republic was the fist country who started mass recycling. Back in the 70's and early eighties we had the "BOTELLEROS" They were men who in a "carretas" went thru the barrios buying and collecting glass and plastic bottles.
The purperias or colmados paid 5 cents when you return the soda or mabi bottles. If you remember, you never saw bottles in the streets, they were supper clean.
-We were one of the first countries to use the treatment plant sludge and convert ii into "Abono or fertilizer"
My aunt used to pick free Abono from La cluaca (treatment plant) in Santiago for her garden. This was free you just had to go and ask. Not too many people knew about it. This was in the 70's and early eighties.
-I really do not know why this great practice was abandoned, we got too Americanized, and we need to get to the basics.
From: United States
Earthworms make great food for chickens and many kinds of freshwater fish.
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They will starve you then enslave you, it is all planned fellows.
http://www.mommiesmagazine.com/make-organic-fertilizer-worms/2599/
S.
You kook kind of cute in this picture !
Did you know, that like you, Earthworms are hermaphrodites!
Win/Win situation, no matter how you might spin it.
Last time I saw a worm like that, it had a hook in it.
rodney i miss you
Josean vas a comer carne. lol
We Haitians may be poor but we don't take food from our neighbour mouth to feed ourselves, besides we don't eat earthworms in our country. You the Dominicans are really master denialers. Your people are eating earthworm and they are selling them to each other and you are joking about it, what kind of mentally retarded are you?
Once again, your country like mine is sitting on a huge oil reserve and instead of asking your government why it hasn't been exploited in order to bring prosperity to your people, all you find to do is to throw silly jokes in the air.
I am very glad I am not your countryman, it would have given me some real doubt about my mental stability.
Where are getting the idea the worms are for eating? They are for decomposing! Can't you read?
For the ones who do not know:
-Dominican Republic was the fist country who started mass recycling. Back in the 70's and early eighties we had the "BOTELLEROS" They were men who in a "carretas" went thru the barrios buying and collecting glass and plastic bottles.
The purperias or colmados paid 5 cents when you return the soda or mabi bottles. If you remember, you never saw bottles in the streets, they were supper clean.
-We were one of the first countries to use the treatment plant sludge and convert ii into "Abono or fertilizer"
My aunt used to pick free Abono from La cluaca (treatment plant) in Santiago for her garden. This was free you just had to go and ask. Not too many people knew about it. This was in the 70's and early eighties.
-I really do not know why this great practice was abandoned, we got too Americanized, and we need to get to the basics.