Bringing in THE WORMS
Every property I have lived on, treating the soil right resulted in worms appearing. We moved onto our current property over eight years ago, and put in some sheet mulch. A few months after that when we revisited the site, it looked exactly as we had left it. When we lifted up the cardboard there were no worms underneath. I then went on a worm hunt and could not find a single worm on our property.
Over the next few years we asked friends and visitors to bring worms with them.). This pleasure was somewhat muted when I read in (written by New Zealander Nicole Masters – and I highly recommend it) that in every shovel of soil you should have 25 worms. This book also says that we have become used to degraded soils, so we don’t know what good soils look like.
