Category Archives: Vermiculture and BSF composting

My new (ESR/ProtaCulture) BIOPOD™

After working with and blogging about black soldier fly larvae for over a year I finally have one of the first BioPods. For the past year I’ve been getting by with my homemade unit and I’m looking forward to testing this product. With that previous experience I’m pretty familiar with the shortcomings of my unit [...]

Earthworms + black soldier fly larvae = composting²

Composting with black soldier fly larvae and composting with earthworms (vermicomposting) are not competing technologies as much as they are complimentary. I’m not speaking from personal experience or research, but I believe it because I was told this by Dr. Paul Olivier, the inventor of the BioPod and one of the pioneers of [...]