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Too Much Vegetable Waste?

Too much food waste is more than your worms can eat in a week. What to do with the [...]

GONE FISHING!

Because red worms are such great composters we think of them as composters.  The compost or castings (poop) are usually seen as the true value of the Eisenia fetida. 

But when you consider their other name, red wiggler, it comes to mind that the red worm is also a terrific fishing worm.  Because of their smaller size the [...]

What to feed the worms.

Purina Worm Chow is my main stay feed. The manure and other bedding material the worms happily eat keeps them in the perfect environment, but the worm chow is the best, easiest, daily feed, especially when things get hectic and I don’t have time to process and properly administer and monitor organic waste.

 Other bedding I provide consists [...]

Orange peel in the worm bin

When researching information on worm bin composting, there are several areas where you come across conflicting information.  And I don’t mean just deviations of thought, I mean polar opposites!

Usually, and this is when I pay attention, the opposite opinion, as it pertains to the worm bin, comes from someone who has expereinced hands on and [...]

Trying To Determine an Anaerobic Smell

Decomposing food smells sour and stinky.  Anaerobic smells past that.  It smells like death, food death. 

 

If something just smells like rotting bad food your okay.  Anaerobic is a smell you probably haven’t smelled until you have a bin that’s gone anaerobic.  [...]