a quick worm update.

I haven't fed the worms in over two weeks, now they're finally starting to show their faces a bit more each time I open the lid... they're eating away from their castings and towards the surface.  As of yet, they haven't chowed down on the condom I put in there, but the mites/springtails are all over it. While cutting a tomato into smaller pieces over top of the worm bin, my dumb ass cut my finger.  I hope they like blood.  Whatever. I'm so psyched for the spring so I can put some of my worms into the compost tumbler... winter sucks.

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World’s Best Compost… is it?

Over the holidays, I like to read as many books as possible...who doesn't?  This time around, I finished reading Marilyn Manson's autobiography (he's a pure genius and if you don't like him you don't understand him), Rubbish! by William Rathje (classic) and World's Best Compost by Rod Turner. Simply put, Rod Turner is a trip.  I'm near certain most people think he's a snake oil selling schemester.  I don't think that's a word.  Anyway, his book really got me thinking outside the box when it comes to the norms of composting.  Honestly, this book kind of shook me up.  My life wasn't turned upside down, but his demonstration of how to make colloidal humus as opposed to compost just seems like the way to go from here on out. But…

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