The VermiDigest by BioFiltro
November 2024
Greetings from BioFiltro! We’ve been wriggling around this Fall, enjoying the leaves and our worms!
New Installations
Follow Our BioFiltro Family Expansion
Olive Mill Pilot in Hopland, CA
We are thrilled to welcome our first olive mill into the worm family. When BioFiltro comes across a new waste stream, we will often deploy a pilot unit to test our system first. This olive mill and winery now has one of our Wiggle Rooms, just in time for olive harvest!
Custom System at Winery in Napa County, CA
We are overjoyed to have our first custom sized system in Napa County! This beautiful winery is now home to 1,600 square feet of worm beds to clean up to 3,300 gallons per day of process water. Our first samples show 100% removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), 96% removal of Total Suspended Solids (TSS), and 92% removal of Total Nitrogen (TN). Go worms!
BioFiltro News
Conservation Innovation Grant Progress
Back in 2023, BioFiltro in collaboration with UC Davis and the University of Vigo, was awarded a 5-year USDA $1.6M Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG). We will use the grant to study the impact of vermicompost application on 12 farms, 6 in California and 6 in Washington, on a variety of crops. We will be looking at a variety of soil health indicators, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soils, and completing an economic analysis and LCA of vermicompost use. The farms are almost all selected. We are still looking for a few annual crop farmers to join this study. Reach out to info@biofiltro.com to see if your farm qualifies. We cannot wait to see how this exciting study goes!
Check It Out
We Got Worms Podcast
Check CO Nxt recently hosted BioFiltro’s President, Steve Rowe, on the State of the Plate podcast as part of their Environmental Awareness series. Rowe chats with them about the revolutionary wastewater vermifiltration system we how and how our red wigglers are involved in the process. Listen to Episode 20, “We Got Worms”!
Check it out: Episode 20
Hosting SAI Platform's Dairy Working Group
This past month, BioFiltro hosted SAI Platform’s Dairy Working Group at O’Neill Vintners & Distillers. We showed them our largest vermifiltration system by volume, as well as how our technology works. A hands on approach to the experience allowed us to better explain our vermifiltration process and the day was a success!
On Our Calendar
November 19th- 20th
Activities and Recreation Center at UC Davis
We are thrilled to have our very own Patrick Beckett, BioFiltro’s VP of Quality and R&D, speaking at the 19th Annual California Bioresources Alliance Symposium at UC Davis. This year’s theme is “Refining California’s Future: Innovating Together for a Thriving Circular Bio-Economy”, and Beckett will be speaking on “The Future of Compost”. We hope to see you there November 19th and 20th!
Register for the event: https://grandchallenges.ucdavis.edu/cba-symposium/
November 19th- 21st
Indian Wells, CA
BioFiltro is honored to sponsor the WateReuse Industrial Reuse Conference. This much anticipated event will be an opportunity to walk the road to water positivity. Our Sales Engineer, Sarah Haupt, will be discussing how BioFiltro uses worms to clean water, air, and build soil at ‘Cocktails & Conversations’ on Wednesday, November 20th.
Register today at the WateReuse Association .
November 20th-21st
Minneapolis, MN
This November, we will be attending the Sustainable Agriculture Summit. Stop by our booth or schedule a time with us to connect. We always enjoy discussing our process and worms!
Sign up for the event: Sustainable Agriculture Summit
Thank you for being a part of our journey, and we look forward to continuing to serve you with our worm-powered wastewater solutions.
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