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RE: (EN-PT) Crazy's Garden: Composting!
I love composting. It not only decreases one's waste stream, when done right, composting improves the soil.
Unfortunately, for many centuries, the composting community held the idea tha European earthworms were the best composters.
Colonists brought European earthworms to ecosystems around the world. The hungry creatures wrought havoc on local ecosystems.
I live in the United States. There were no earthworms where I lived. There were native compoosters that created a loam that was richer than that created by earthworms.
The earthworms wraught havoc in local ecosystems and caused many species to go extinct.
Unfortunately, many people start the composting experiment by ordering European earthworms online.
I think that the best way to start composting is to hike around native ecosystems. IF you find soil that you like, you might scoop some of it into a bucket and use that to start the compost system.
I googled "earthworms in brazil." It returned numerous articles on the problems caused by invasive earthworms such as this article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139322003092
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Brazil has the unfortunate habit of importing anything that someone says is better.
The problem with exotic earthworms here is so big that there is a trade in them over the internet, which is not regulated by anyone. On the other hand, there is research in the area and several comparisons on the efficiency of different varieties of earthworms when the objective is to decompose. However, at one time or another the worm colony is returned to the environment, and then the problem of uncontrolled proliferation begins.
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There are things other than earthworms that compost.
I mentioned that the native composters in North American forest create a deep rich loam which is better soil than that created by earthworms.
I imagine that there is an extremely rich native biome in Brazilian Rain forests. It is likely that there are creatures in Brazil that do a better job composting than earthworms.
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