The original windrows are pushed together and the vermicast sitting on the top is collected. Once the worms have eaten their way through the food laid out for them they migrate to new mounds of carefully mixed waste. As soon as we bring industries together and the end-users, farmers, we have a solution (for the waste). If we would just operate for bio-solids at a community (level) it wouldn't be successful. A very small worm farm just working for a milk plant wouldn't work. The bigger you are, we can combine more things. Michael says the worms will turn their noses up at some waste if it is too acidic or too alkaline, but that doesn't mean they won't eat it. So we are creating a beautiful sandwich for the worms So they need bread, which is the fibre and they need some mayonnaise or butter and some lettuce and maybe like some chicken - that's the biosolids, the lake weeds, the food waste, milk sludge and we combine it so the worms actually can't resist coming to the party." "So you want to have a party, so you need to have something on the buffet. "It's like being in a kitchen or in the entertainment business," Michael says. MyNoke leases farmland and, on it, lays out knee-high windrows of mixed waste. The worms also process bio-solids from Rotorua, Te Puke and Taupo. It is much cheaper for the ratepayers to use us than send it to the landfill." "That's two truck and trailer loads a day of this material. Already MyNoke takes 16,000 tonnes of bio-solids annually from Hamilton City Council's treatment ponds.
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