The Earthworm Farmer’s Bible

About the Book

Dr. Merrill has written numerous books and novels. In this book the author shares his extensive experience in vermiculture and his lifelong passion for organic gardening with the reader. We believe this to be the most comprehensive book ever written on earthworm farming and organic gardening. Dr. Merrill tells you how to raise earthworms, what to feed composting earthworms and how to harvest and process the valuable worm castings your earthworms will produce. You don’t have to invest a lot of money on worms or expensive bins to compost your kitchen waste and newspapers at home. You may be surprised to learn that you can get started for less than the cost of a couple of cups of coffee at Starbucks. In fact, you don’t have to spend a dime on earthworms Dr. Merrill tells you where to get them for free. Yes, for free and your initial worm bins can be purchased from any hardware store for less than $10.00! For those who are interested in a larger commercial worm farming operation, the author tells you how to achieve your goal, again, at far less expense than you might expect. As Dr. Merrill says “You don’t have to invest thousands of dollars on worms and expensive equipment to make a lot of money in an earthworm farming business.”

About the Author

Dr. Merrill’s family were pioneers of the Seventh Day Adventist Colony in Eel Rock, California, in 1933. Eel Rock is located above the banks of the majestic North Fork of the Eel River, about twenty miles upriver from its junction with the South Fork at Dyersville. Because of the educational limitations of this sparsely populated rural area, the Merrill’s moved to Myers Flat on the more populous South Fork of the Eel in 1958. Dr. Merrill graduated from the South Fork High School in 1955 and received a BA in Physiology from the University of California at Berkeley, four years later. When Dr. Merrill graduated from the University of Southern California Medical School in 1963, he became the first person from Southern Humboldt County to become a medical doctor. After completing his internship and a year of surgical residency in California, Dr. Merrill moved to Minnesota, where he performed his Urology Residency under the late Don Creevy at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center in Minneapolis. He completed a National Institutes of Health Special Fellowship in Urology in 1969 and joined the university’s Urology faculty in 1971. In 1973, Dr. Merrill was recruited by the University of California at Davis to administer their Urology Residency program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinez, California. Dr. Merrill served as chief of Urology at that institution until its closure in 1991. Dr. Merrill and his wife, Tina, have two daughters. They have lived in the Bay Area for the past thirty-nine years. Dr. Merrill has written numerous books and articles pertaining to the field of urology and several books on subjects not related to the medical field, as noted in the last pages of this book. This is his first work of fiction.