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Radio Extra: These 2 Million Worms on the South Side Could Save the Planet

By  Jon Hansen and Casey Cora | December 19, 2014 1:16pm 

BACK OF THE YARDS — From inside a funky-smelling semitrailer wash bay, Ed Hubbard evangelizes the power of the humble earthworm — those slimy, slithering wonders capable of chomping away at food waste.

"We didn't know how much a problem waste is. I mean, we thought we knew, but you don't really know until you know," said Hubbard, the curly-haired, bespectacled founder of Nature's Little Recyclers, a worm farm specializing in the production and sale of red wiggler worms and the nutrient-rich compost they help create. 

On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Casey Cora discusses the worm farm and its potential benefits to the city's waste:

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