The finished worm home!
Earlier this week we made our finished worm home! It was easier than we expected and I’m glad I got it out of the way finally. We had to borrow a drill from a friend because we didn’t have one, but that was the only roadblock. Once we drilled the holes in the box we put some newspaper bedding in
Then we just moved over the soil and food from the temp home
All done! Yay! I should have taken a picture of it oh well. The worms are happy and we’ve been keeping them on a steady diet of banana peels and cherry tomatoes that are past their prime.
Well done
How to build a worm tower
A worm tower not only enables worms do their work at composting, but it also helps them spread out and distribute the compost in your tank garden. This is such a low maintenance way of keeping nutrients cycling in your garden, and easy to put together.
Can-O-Worms!
This is the worm bin that we use. We like it because it makes it very easy to harvest the compost once the worms are done with it.
You can buy them online through AbundantEarth.com or Amazon.com.
With each one of the new people recently hired at my office, when I tell them that there is a bin to save their banana peels and apple cores when I will take and feed to worms, they look at me like I’m joking.
I have to tell them, No, I’m actually serious.
The Associated Press:
“For eco-restaurateur Dave Krick, it’s not just about where his food comes from, but also where it’s going.
“And in the case of his Red Feather Lounge and Bittercreek Ale House, some 100 pounds of it a day are feeding an extra 200,000 diners – Vermont red wiggler worms that live in the restaurants’ basement, working around the clock to turn kitchen waste into nutrient-rich compost…
“‘One of our goals is to eliminate our garbage by 2012,’ says Krick”
Submitted by crazynutjob
Ekokook: The Kitchen of the Future That Produces, Prepares and Disposes (from Treehugger)
Featuring a worm composter!
It’s nice to see in-home vermicomposting leaving the realm of the obscure…
