Worm Farm 360

I had a great session with my spiritual director this morning and afterwards he gave a car load of stuff to start a Worm Farm in my house. One of things was a “Worm Factory 360” which can produce abundant worm castings, invaluable for growing plants. Compost goes into one end of worm and castings, rich in microbes and other good organisms, come out the other end, as Castings or worm poop. Playing around with the worm system I thought of an article in the Featured Article home page called Nature’s Bounty, Soil Salvation. In the article the author suggest soil, like worm castings “is a rich repository of microbes and other organisms with which we’ve coexisted from the beginning. As science digs deeper into understanding the effects of bacteria on human health, and especially on the immune system, it looks increasingly like ingesting components of the soil itself might be as critical to human health as the very finest fruits and veggies grown in it.’’

We can ingest soil like worm casting by putting our hands into them. At one time I put a bunch of “worm castings” into a plastic bag and was going to use it to bring to meetings. I was going to secretly, under the table, rub my hands through the castings when I was getting upset and tense at all the talking going on, going nowhere. I got the bag ready but never used it.

My spiritual director this morning talked to me about being tense. When I work with soil and castings in the garden I am more relaxed. So, I think that by giving me a worm farm to make castings inside he was giving me a way to be less tense. I knew there was a connection between worms and spiritual direction. Worm casting are an aide to spiritual direction.

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