Fifteen - Vermicompost!

We finally got our worms! We have been looking into vermicomposting for some time. Now that we are back in Minnesota, we thought this would be the best way to stop throwing any food scraps away (minus meat and dairy of course). Anything the worms do not eat, we put in the outside compost bin. The pound of red wigglers are sitting in our kitchen, hidden in their Worm Factory. We could have built a worm compost bin, but with this (made from 100% recycled plastic) the worms separate themselves from the ready compost, there is a spicket for worm tea, and it looks nice enough to keep out in our kitchen. Here's an example of a DIY bin.


Feeding worms is a bit like feeding a baby--we need to keep our food scraps small, and they don't like citrus, onions, or spicy food (I don't like the last two, so we are quite compatible). The worms are amazing! They will eat toilet paper tubes, newspaper, cardboard, pizza boxes, eggshells, tea bags, hiar, even burlap! Here is a great website for getting started.

Look at the post below for our video.

Peace!