Next door, on our sister site CRAFT, Wendy Tremayne has an excellent piece on worm-bin composting. I’ve had a compost pile since I was a teen. It’s almost something of a religious experience for me (United Church of Compost?), certainly something that gets me up close and personal with natural life cycles I might otherwise overlook. And I’ve never gotten over the aerobic decompositional thrills of putting a huge amount of stinky, gooey garbage and yard waste in the top of the bin and shoveling out uniform, rich, black compost out of the bottom. It’s a fundamentally satisfying process somehow.
6. Feed your worms. Bury your kitchen scraps under a couple inches of bedding to avoid inviting fruit flies. A pound of worms will decompose up to half a pound a day of your fruit and vegetable scraps, tea, and coffee. Avoid animal products and oily foods that encourage odors and pests.
How-To: Make a Worm Composting Bin
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I made one of these last week. My worms are happily eating away. Worm farming for life.
Worms like it dark – use an opaque bin or wrap it in aluminum foil. Happy worm-farming!
i’m just wondering what this was doing in Craft:blog instead of Make:blog.
not that it isn’t great, it’s just not CRAFTY
I have one of these that I made about 2 years ago. The worms are THRIVING. Check out my Flickr set from the last time I emptied the bin.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/axsdeny/tags/vermicomposting/
Hey! Nice article. I recently made a worm bin, and now, it’s been thriving for 2 months. A bunch of little organisms have appeared, and the worms seem to be happy and are eating a lot. Check out the bin!
http://grr-uh-rick.tumblr.com/post/133832681
Those will be happy worms if you give them lots of scraps.
http://jtrader.hubpages.com/hub/Green-Waste-Blender-Compost-Plus-East-Indian-Mango-Tree-Grafting-Techniques