Vermicomposting at Home – Food Waste Optimization
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdj_fjQ-RsQ This is part one of a 3-part vermicomposting series done by THE dude Bentley Christie. Follow these tips and your worms will give you no hassles, ever.
Worm Inn Mega tour (video)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv8s6EW6NkI Definitely digging this MASSIVE Worm Inn. My main question is regarding how to empty it... since it's so huge when you open the drawstrings I can imagine material just flies out of that thing. I wonder how heavy it is...definitely over 100 pounds when full, if not closer to 150 lbs! If I had one of these, I'd pretty much have to stop my other compost projects since I don't have a whole lot of material, but man it's tempting to get one anyway! My current Worm Inn is just enough capacity, but there have been times where I wish it was bigger.
Worm Wonderings #1: can you compost waxed paper?
For fun, I decided to add some wax paper items to my worm composting bin: I decided to add a Jimmy John's sandwich wrapper and some little blueberry muffin cake things left over from Thanksgiving I forgot about. Seriously messed up on that one- my mom makes killer food. Sorry mom! I'll let you know if the worms like it (they did, but not the wax paper). Oh- did you know that the majority of "paper" cups you see contain a plastic liner in them? If your finished worm castings seem to have bits of shiny plastic in them, and you put a paper cup or two in the worm bin, chances are the remnants are what's left from the cups. Vermicomposting is fun, but I always go back to…