I apologize for throwing a wet blanket on your question and it is a legitimate question. But when it comes to the human flourishing issue I am compelled to respond in a way that discourages the practice. I have traveled to a lot of places and seen a number of vermicomposting systems and I am still trying to figure out why people use vermiculture systems. I have never yet seen a system that increases the income of farmers relative to other activities that are of higher profit margin. I try to discourage the practice not because it is bad but just because there is always something better to do with your time since it brings a very low return on time invested. So this is a challenge to others to present a vermicomposting system that is the highest income opportunity (relative to other activities) and I will correct my opinion and change what I advise and that might help Stacy also when people accept that challenge. There are a number of low margin of return activities such as making biochar or setting up aquaponics and vermicomposting is one of them. My opinion is that there are other ways to maximize the blessing to the world that are more worthy of time investment. Occasionally there may be someone who can make a market of worm sales so I am not discounting that objective if you can do it competitively.
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