Podcast appearances and mentions of rhonda sherman

Many gardeners are curious about vermicomposting but are unsure about how to start. To explain what you need to know to make a simple worm bin, my returning guest this week is Rhonda Sherman, one of the foremost experts on vermicomposting and the author of “The Worm Farmer's Handbook.” Download my free eBook 5 Steps to Your Best Garden Ever - the 5 most important steps anyone can do to have a thriving garden or landscape. It's what I still do today, without exception, to get incredible results, even in the most challenging conditions. Subscribe to the joegardener® email list to receive weekly updates about new podcast episodes, seasonal gardening tips, and online gardening course announcements. Check out The joegardener® Online Gardening Academy for our growing library of organic gardening courses. Follow joegardener® on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, and subscribe to The joegardenerTV YouTube channel.

Vermicompost is one of the most effective products created by using worms to recycle organic material, usually waste, to produce an extraordinary soil amendment rich in beneficial microbes. But it took quite a while for vermicompost to catch on as viable means to divert organic waste from household trash bins and landfills. To share the history and benefits of vermicompost and the key facts to know, my guest this week is Rhonda Sherman, the author of “The Worm Farmer's Handbook” and a world-renowned expert in the field. This episode is all about what the worms produce - vermicompost. Next week, we will go into the details of the process of how to make vermicompost, through the process of vermicomposting. Download my free eBook 5 Steps to Your Best Garden Ever - the 5 most important steps anyone can do to have a thriving garden or landscape. It's what I still do today, without exception to get incredible results, even in the most challenging conditions. Subscribe to the joegardener® email list to receive weekly updates about new podcast episodes, seasonal gardening tips, and online gardening course announcements. Check out The joegardener® Online Gardening Academy for our growing library of organic gardening courses. Follow joegardener® on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, and subscribe to The joegardenerTV YouTube channel.

Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that one third of all food in the U.S. goes uneaten and in 2018, about 81 percent, or 20.3 tons  of households' wasted food ended up in landfills or combustion facilities? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Rhonda Sherman, M.S, Extension  Specialist on composting, recycling and solid waste reduction at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Affectionately known as “the worm queen,” Sherman explains that preventing food from going to waste is one of the easiest and most powerful actions we can take to save money and lower our climate change footprint by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and conserving natural resources. Related website:  https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/show_ep3_pdf/1649787791/22094/ 

What exactly is composting? Okay, how ‘bout vermicomposting - what’s that, and what kind of wine should you pair it with? North Carolina State University’s Rhonda Sherman, um, breaks it all down for us! Plus, Toni and Bonnie find themselves censured by our Book Club - we must have order! And get out you bifocals and squint at that bag of Funyuns - it’s our brand new Department of Fine Print. GUEST Rhonda Sherman Extension Specialist, Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-worm-farmers-handbook/  HOUSE BAND Sylvia D’Avanzo Broadway Violinist https://www.lct.org/shows/flying-over-sunset/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guests today share their amazing pregnancy miracle stories. We have Rhonda Sherman and Sabrina Green. Join us! #michaelfinkleyshow​ #season2​ #miracle​ #pregnancy​ #stories​ #monday​ #wednesday​ #friday​ #inform​ #educate​ #inspire​ #subscribe​ #youtube​ #spotify​ #applepodcast​ #rokutv​ #greaterworksnetwork --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michael-finkley-show/message

When it comes to waste management, NC State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences delivers solutions. Learn how Rhonda Sherman helps others use worms to create valuable soil amendments from agricultural wastes.OUR GUESTRhonda Sherman is an extension specialist with NC State University’s Department of Horticultural Science. Her work at the university over the past 28 years has focused on solid waste management. She’s written more than 60 publications and is author of the book “The Worm Farmers Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools and Institutions.” RESOURCESSherman’s website, composting.ces.ncsu.edu is chockfull of advice for anyone who wants to get into vermicomposting. Her vermicomposting page includes videos, podcasts and links to publications and articles in the popular press. Key publications include Raising Earthworms Successfully and Worms Can Recycle Your Garbage. You can also order her book The Worm Farmer’s Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions from Amazon.

Rhonda Sherman, worm expert and author of The Worm Farmer's Handbook, shares her knowledge and tips on running wormeries in small spaces, including:Why worm compost makes a brilliant fertiliser. The common pitfalls of setting up a wormery, including overfeeding. What to feed worms - and what to avoid.The difference between leachate and worm tea.For more information on wormeries check out Rhonda's excellent Composting website, as well as the wormery posts on Vertical Veg. Support the show (https://verticalveg.org.uk/vertical-veg-needs-your-support/)

In this special episode, part of our Women of the Land series with Chelsea Green Publishing, Abby chats with Rhonda Sherman, vermicomposting and recycling queen! Rhonda’s book, ‘The Worm Farmer’s Handbook’ is a fascinating how-to guide, demystifying the science and logistics of the process of vermicomposting, or composting with worms. We were so inspired by Rhonda’s worm wisdom, and loved learning all about how effective worms can be at encouraging microbes and building soil health! Check out the ‘Worms Can Recycle Your Garbage’ fact sheet Rhonda mentions in the interview below. Thanks to Chelsea Green Publishing for supporting this episode. Rhonda’s ‘Worms Can Recycle Your Garbage’ factsheet: https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/worms-can-recycle-your-garbage Our title photo is by Zachary Brooks at Arizona Worm Farm

Composting Trash...Saves money, makes money and enriches our good earth. Who knew? Rhonda Sherman, Director of the NC State University Compost Learning Lab and world renown expert in composting discusses how composting is now done in individual homes & businesses. Rhonda defines vermicomposting - one of the most money making new innovations that saves our earth instead of harming it. While poorly conceived human trash continues to destroy our earth's soil, water and resources, seeking new ways to begin processes of transforming the damage done is what we all can do.  Rhonda's decades of work and 20 years of world experience is available for anyone to benefit from here: https://composting.ces.ncsu.edu/about-composting/ Rhonda's book: The Worm Farmer's Handbook details the specifics of vermicomposting. The 20th Annual Vermiculture Conference will be held October 26 & 27 at NC State. See the link above for details of both. 

Vermiculturist Cinda Williams walks us through the benefits and awesomeness that come from raising your own bucket full o' worms. Ready to take your composting and recycling to Hoopy Frood levels? This episode is for you. Rhonda Sherman is a leading authority on vermicompsting from NC State University. This website provides a lot of information on the science behind vermicomposting. Her book can also be found here. Urban Worm Company-A great resource for learning how to get started and an online shop to find supplies. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bardscollege/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bardscollege/support

My guest today, Rhonda Sherman, is the director of the Compost Learning Lab at North Carolina State University and a leading expert on vermicomposting. Rhonda travels extensively to present workshops and to consult with farmers, businesses, and institutions on the development and management of vermicomposting systems. She also organizes the annual North Carolina State Vermiculture Conference, which for nineteen years has drawn participants from across the United States and around the globe. She is a co-editor of Vermiculture Technology and has written extensively about composting and vermicomposting in her role with NC State University. In this episode I talked with Rhonda about her new book, “The Worm Farmer's Handbook.” Though the book focuses mostly on mid to large scale vermicomposting systems, we start by talking about small residential vermicomposting and the positive effect it can have on our lives by taking back control of our waste streams and turning it into an incredible product. We also go into detail about troubleshooting problems in the system, feeding and watering indicators, pest deterrents and much more. Rhonda also shares some great resources from her website that you can use for free and which I've linked to on the show notes for this episode at abundantedge.com Resources: Buy the book “The Worm Farmer's Handbook” Rhonda's website More about Rhonda Sherman

Rhonda Sherman has been an extension waste management specialist with North Carolina State University since 1993. She is the founder and director of the Composting Learning Lab (CL2), which has 26 types of vermicomposting and composting bins. She gives about 40 presentations annually and has authored over 65 publications on these topics. Her new book is The Worm Farmer’s Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions.  Rhonda Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: The importance of vermicomposting to address organic waste issues The benefits of vermicomposting over traditional composting How sustainability leaders can implement vermicomposting within their organizations Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders Rhonda's Final Five Question Responses: What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? You can see from my career that I never intended to work for with worms, but I left myself open to possibilities and was always looking ahead to what wasn't being addressed. I became wildly successful with it. I was not expecting that. I tell people I accidentally became world famous. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? I'm so excited that people are finally paying attention to it, you know? I was writing about food waste recycling a long time ago, like in the 90's, and other people just were not paying attention to food waste. So, now I'm thrilled that they finally are. So many different organizations are trying to reduce, reuse, recycle food waste. So, that's very exciting and I'm thrilled that so many schools have garden and that it's part of the curriculum, raising food and preparing it and eating it. And since you always end up with food waste in a garden or in the kitchen, hopefully they're doing some composting or vermicomposting onsite. What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read? Obviously my new book, The Worm Farmer's handbook. I also have another book called Vermiculture Technology and that's a 600 page book on scientific aspects of vermicomposting. And also, this is an old book, but it's very important - The Population Bomb. I read that when I was in school back in the 70's or 80's. This planet can't sustain an ever increasing population. So, I think we really need to be conscious of that. What are some of your favorite resources or tools it really helped you in your work? My scientific colleagues. I really want people to know about Google Scholar. I mentioned it earlier, but Google Scholar is where you'll find scientific articles. I just think it's really for people to read websites that end in .edu or .gov, because they're really good resources that are normally unbiased and research based, and that's so important. So, you just really have to be careful what you read on the Internet as most people know. On a lot of the worm farming business websites, it's not always accurate information, so you really have to be careful. Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and your work? My website is composting.ces.ncsu.edu. I'm on Facebook, NC state's Vermiculture Composting Recycling Program. I'm on Twitter (Rhonda Sherman) and LinkedIn (Rhonda Sherman) and email - sherman@ncsu.edu. My website is a great source of information. There's so much info on there. It'll take you a couple of days to get through it all. I also have videos and podcasts and all sorts of ways to access the information. About Sustridge Sustridge is a sustainability consulting firm providing consulting in sustainability strategy development, GHG emissions calculating and management, zero waste planning and guidance in TRUE Zero Waste, B Corp, LEED and Carbon Neutral certification.  

This month's episode of Living Permaculture features Rhonda Sherman, founder and director of the Composting Learning Lab and author of the book, The Worm Farmer’s Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions . Living Permaculture is heard on the fourth Wednesday of each month on KDNK. Hosts Jerome Osentowski and Stephanie Syson run the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute a non-profit in Basalt, Colorado. Listen to archived episodes here .

Author Rhonda Sherman joins us on the podcast to talk all things vermicast, from worm biology to proper bin set-up.  Get her book here and use the checkout code NOTILL for a 35% discount: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-worm-farmers-handbook/  Farmer Jesse Links: Patreon Group: Podcast Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/The-No-Till-Market-Garden-Podcast-348435182395903/?ref=bookmarks Farm: roughdraftfarmstead.com Farmer Jesse’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farmer.jesse.3511 Farmer Jesse's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farmer_chef_jesse RDF instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roughdraftfarmstead/?hl=en Farm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roughdraftfarmstead

Organically recycling through vermicomposting. In This Podcast: Rhonda Sherman, an extension specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University, shares how throwing away our food waste is a major problem in landfills, releasing methane gas which is a contributor to climate change and causing heavy metals to be released into water sources. She spends 90 percent of her work time educating people in what to do with their food waste instead, namely by composting or vermicomposting. Rhonda shares access to many of the publications she's written which can be found on her website. Don't miss an episode! Click here to sign up for podcast updatesor visit www.urbanfarm.org/podcast Rhonda is an extension specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University, providing leadership for university outreach programs on solid waste management issues through the Cooperative Extension Service. She holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Urban/Regional Planning, and Environmental Resources Analysis with an emphasis in solid waste management. Rhonda's areas of expertise are vermicomposting, composting, recycling, and waste reduction. She gives about 40 presentations annually and has authored over 65 publications on these topics. Her new book is The Worm Farmer's Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions published by our friends at Chelsea Green. Go to www.urbanfarm.org/wormfarmershandbook for more information and links on this podcast, and to find our other great guests. 405: Rhonda Sherman on Worm Farming