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Worm Ladies Gift Certificates

Gift certificates can be purchased for any amount desired. Some popular options:

gift certificate for 1 lb. bag of worms

gift certificate for starter kit

The Rhode Island Gardner's Companion

by Barbara Gee

The Rhode Island Gardener’s Companion is the only guide focused on the challenges of cultivating a successful garden in the Ocean State. Whether you are an experienced green thumb or a curious novice, whether you live in silty sands of Narragansett Basin, out on windswept Block Island, or among the granite ledges of Foster and Burrillville, this easy-to-understand guide helps you grow plentiful vegetables, abundant flowers, and lush lawns.

$14.95

Worms Eat My Garbage:How to setup & maintain a vermicomposting system

by Mary Appelhof

The definitive guide to vermicomposting: a process using redworms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich food for plants. Newly revised and updated, this 162-page manual provides complete illustrated instructions on setting up and maintaining small-scale worm composting systems. Topics include different bins, what kind of worms to use, sex life of a worm, preparing worm beddings, how to meet the needs of the worms, what kinds of foods to feed the worms, harvesting worms, and making potting soil from the vermicompost produced. A 63-page bibliography, 24 annotated references, a glossary,and comprehensive index make this a valuable reference book as well as a practical manual.

$12.95

Worms Eat Our Garbage: classroom activities for a Better Environment

by Mary Appelhof, Mary Frances Fenton, Barbara Loss Harris

This curriculum uses over 150 worm-related classroom or home activities to develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills in children grades 4-8. Activities integrate science, mathematics, language arts, biology, solid waste issues, ecology, and the environment.

$22.95

The Earth Moved

by Amy Stewart

This is a fascinating exploration of the underground world and one of its most amazing denizens. The earthworm may be small, spineless, and blind, but its role in the ecosystem is profound. It tills the soil, destroys microscopic organisms that cause plant disease, breaks down toxins, and turns the ground into rich compost, creating the most fertile areas on earth. In her witty and offbeat style, Amy Stewart shows just how much depends on the humble worm.

$23.95

Compost By Gosh

by Michelle Eva Portman

Author Michelle Eva Portman presents a wonderful adventure where a young girl and her mom convert a storage box into a house for their new pets. The box becomes a vermicomposting bin and the pets are redworms. Portman’s poetic, rhyming couplets provide a grand explanation of the process of vermicomposting in a manner that the youngest reader/listener will enjoy. The story is accompanied by adorable illustrations. The book includes How To and Resources sections to encourage further exploration of vermicomposting.

$16.95 

The Worm Cafe: Mid-scale Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes

by Binet Payne

A comprehensive how-to manual describing how a teacher and her students developed a system to compost lunchroom waste using worms and saved their school $6000 per year. Teachers, decision-makers, and activists in school, small businesses, and community groups will welcome this unique material.

$29.95