Vermicasting properties are known to provide the following benefits to soils and converting a waste into an increased source of income:

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• Slowly releases nutrients through the breakdown of a peritrophic membrane 

• Provides excellent aeration, porosity, structure, drainage, and moisture holding capacity.  This is due to stable molecular structure that can provide up to 15x N ,11x P and 7x K, than in surrounding topsoil.

• Has a neutral pH and will not burn plants.

• Retains nutrients in wastes and processes them through calcium carbonate and enzymes that convert insoluble minerals into a soluble form more readily taken up by plants.

• Reduces carbon and methane emissions from disturbed soil into the air due to a high humic content, and thus contributes to the reduction of global warming.  

• Added to plants in a 1:10 ratio can increase plant growth up to 30% and root mass 150%.

• A nutrient rich, environmentally friendly organic soil amendment, rich in humus that keeps on feeding roots over longer periods of time.

• Reduces potential of chemical fertilizers leaching into water systems and produces soil that is less subject to erosion.

• Use of castings on farmland reduces need for fallow fields, tilling, chemical fertilizer and lessens plant diseases and malodorous conditions.  Lessens germination period of crops and decreases growth time.  Increases healthier crop yields and income to farmers, while being organic and  environmentally friendly.

• Kills harmful bacteria and diseases by the production of a huge increase in benevolent disease suppressing microbes, crowding out harmful diseases, pests and pathogens by as much as 72% due to a greater aerobic environment.

• Provides less restrictions than Class B biosolids and allows more space for planting crops.  

• Requires less tilling as soil carbon increases over time.

• The earthworm’s castings or excrement contain elements rich in “soil carbon”, trapping methane and carbon dioxide emissions from the soil.  This soil carbon contains unique carbon atoms associated with three elements of worm castings....humic acids, fulvic acids, and humins.  

• The chemical analyses of casts show two times available magnesium, 15 times available nitrogen (N), 11x phosphorous (P) and seven times available potassium ((K) compared to the surrounding soil (Bridgens, 1981). 

• Advanced systems for vermicomposting are based on the top feeding of redworms and bottom discharge of completed castings, thus providing stability and control over the key areas of temperature, moisture and aerobicity (Price, 1988)   Various studies have shown that vermicomposting of organic waste accelerates organic matter stabilization, (Neuhauser et al., 1998; Frederickson et al., 1997).

• V.S. provides "chelating" and phytohormonal elements (Tomati et al., 1995) which have a high content of microbial matter and stabilized humic substances.

• V.S. enhances Soil Fertility; the inherent capacity of soil to supply nutrients to plants in adequate amounts and suitable proportions.

• V.S. frees up landfill space, lowers costs of disposal.

• V.S. creates a source of income from the sale of worms and castings.