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Wriggling waste-eaters are at heart of planned $1.1M recycling center.

We're kicking off the 2011 Summer School series by learning how to set up a worm composting bin.  It's cheap and easy and many gardeners swear by this worm manure to fuel their gardens, perk up tired house plants and even prevent plant diseases.  In Greensboro Bend, Lynette Courtney, one of the "Wacky Worm Sisters" runs the Down to Earth Worm Farm and takes us through the rules of composting with worms.

The Worm Factory: Automation & Recycling Matter (WFARM), is a fast-acting composting machine, throw in food and natural waste and a few days later get vermicompost and worm tea. Patent pending, the WFARM machine which can be scaled down for home use or scaled up for commercial use.

Strange as it sounds, the latest breakthrough in skin care might come from the bowels of earthworms. Known as Worm Castings, earthworm excrement is filled with peptides and enzymes that are clinically proven to repair damaged skin. GSC Products has released the world’s first anti-aging cream using an exclusive extract made from earthworm castings.

WILL ALLEN already had the makings of an agricultural dream packed into two scruffy acres in one of Milwaukee’s most economically distressed neighborhoods. His Growing Power organization has six greenhouses and eight hoophouses for greens, herbs and vegetables; pens for goats, ducks and turkeys; a chicken coop and beehives; and a system for raising tilapia and perch. There’s an advanced composting operation — a virtual worm farm — and a lab that is working on ways to turn food waste into fertilizer and methane gas for energy.