Contest! 50 lbs of worm poop? castings? vermicompost?

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My brother Rick and I attended the 9th annual NC State worm conference last week and it was great. There were folks there from 16 states and 3 countries.
I have to admit that there were a lot of odd folks there. Apparently, I was the only normal guy there amongst all the worm geeks and nerds… Go figure.

We were issued a challenge by Tom Herlihy of Worm Power, the biggest worm guy in the US. He processes 30, 000 lbs of dairy manure solids a day with worms. His challenge to us, which is now your challenge in the Laughing Owl Worm Poop Name Change Contest, is to come up with a better consumer-friendly term to describe worm poop. Current terms are worm castings, worm manure, vermicompost, None of these make any sense unless one is already involved with worms and hip to the lingo. You mention these phrases to most people and they look at you like you are some kind of weirdo worm nerd.

Being hip to worm lingo does not make me a geeky nerd, I swear…

Info on vermicomposting.

The goal of the this contest is to come up with a descriptive and consumer-friendly name for earthworm poop used as a soil amendment and organic fertilizer. Give it your best shot. Not looking for cutesy. Winner, if there is one, gets 50 lbs of Laughing Owl worm fill in the blank.

I will admit to drinking the kool-aid concerning worm crap. We potted up 600 tomato, 300 eggplant, and 200 peppers in 4.5″ peat pots and the potting soil mix was 20% worm compost. We bought a 1500 lb. box of the stuff. Some of the best transplants we have ever raised. When we transplanted them out, we added two cups of worm compost to each hole and the results are impressive.