{"id":537972,"date":"2010-04-21T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2010-04-21T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:15:20","slug":"billions-of-red-worms-get-green-jobs-on-coffee-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/537972","title":{"rendered":"Billions of Red Worms Get Green Jobs on Coffee Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8645\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/21\/billions-of-red-worms-get-green-jobs-on-coffee-farms\/worms-get-green-jobs-growing-organic-coffee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8645\" title=\"worms get green jobs growing organic coffee\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/worms-get-green-jobs-growing-organic-coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Rogers Family Company uses worms to clean up coffee industry and restore habitats\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a>Billions of California red wriggly <a title=\"rogers family farm press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rogersfamilyco.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=185&amp;Itemid=104\" >worms are hard at work cleaning up the coffee industry<\/a>.\u00a0 Yes, worms.\u00a0 Coffee industry leader <a title=\"rogers family website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rogersfamilyco.com\" >Rogers Family Company<\/a> has been using the worms to combat water contamination caused by mounds of rotting coffee pulp.\u00a0 Using the only tool at their disposal &#8211;\u00a0 their &#8220;prodigious digestive talents&#8221; &#8212; the worms convert waste pulp into organic fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>The fertilizer in turn helps replenish nutrients in depleted soil, which in turn helps to restore ecosystems that support organic coffee farms that double as nature habitats.\u00a0 As an extra green bonus, the worms can also produce biogas &#8212; just like <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/12\/12\/biogas-from-cows-could-help-save-new-york-city-water-supply\/\" >biogas from cow manure<\/a>, only without the hooves and such-all.<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/21\/billions-of-red-worms-get-green-jobs-on-coffee-farms\/#more-8639\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billions of California red wriggly worms are hard at work cleaning up the coffee industry.\u00a0 Yes, worms.\u00a0 Coffee industry leader Rogers Family Company has been using the worms to combat water contamination caused by mounds of rotting coffee pulp.\u00a0 Using the only tool at their disposal &#8211;\u00a0 their &#8220;prodigious digestive talents&#8221; &#8212; the worms convert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}