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My Life With Worms by Bentley Christie (review)

I've been following Bentley Christie's Red Worm Composting site for quite some time now, just reading over the material and watching videos to prep myself for suddenly owning 1,000 pets. Other than the first night where nearly every worm in the bin tried to escape (I realized there weren't enough air holes!), it's been a breeze maintaining them and watching them multiply. His expertise certainly helped me become a professional in short time, and I thank him for that. His writing style is a trip, and I've been begging him to write a guest article for this page for quite some time (feel free to harass him). When he told me he was near completion with writing a book, I was thinking to myself "finally, the end-all be-all worm…

Worm bin drama

I got a new package of worms in the mail yesterday...sounds great, right? Thanks for the worms, Bentley! I had a bin all ready to go for them, filled with moldy food scraps and shredded cardboard. Around 7pm I put them in their new habitat, stared at them for a while, then went out for some food. I came back a few hours later, and whaddya know, they're all over my floor in slimy clumps. Believe it or not, this is somewhat normal for worms in the beginning as they figure out their new living situation. How did I solve the problem? Well, I put the container directly underneath a light since the worms don't like light so much. Further, I began shredding through all the paper I could find,…