Minority Farmers Visit Growing Power

Approximately 60 minority farmers from Ohio and Michigan visited Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Growing Power is a nationally recognized leader in urban agriculture which provides hands-on training and technical support for community projects. Growing Power's training facility includes seven large greenhouses, a kitchen, indoor and outdoor training gardens, aquaculture system, and a food distribution facility. Animals at the facility include worms, fish, rabbits, bees, goats, chickens, and ducks.

The farmers' two-day training included learning how to set up a Vermiculture System (worm farming) and how to build a worm composting system. Worm composting makes a super rich organic fertilizer and liquid by-products created by maintaining the worm bins. The worms process composted waste and help to multiply millions of tiny microbes into a nutrient rich soil, called worm castings. They consider their worms as livestock. The worm castings have been proven to grow plants with less disease, greater fragrance and flavor, and better yield than with any other kind of soil.

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