Eggs in the Worm Bin… What Are They?

Eggs in the worm bin...sound about right?  For those of you new vermicomposters out there, you have probably witnessed bunches of tiny moving white eggs along the rim of your worm bin, and maybe on some of the material.  This is totally common when starting out and none other than a form of mites or springtails.  They might look like this: These little guys are nothing more than moochers...they exist separately from your worms, other than when they snack on worm corpses, it seems.  Apparently, they are a sign of imbalance in your worm bin...however, they like to munch on material that's not appealing to worms.  Personally, I don't mind them because a presence of critters means you have an active habitat. To get the bin a little more stable:…

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Pedal Powered Compost Turner (Youtube)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FlKln5wGuA Pretty cool video.  Being a bike nerd, this actually seems feasible to me in some weird way. While I don't expect the average person to gut an old bike and build a frame to turn a massive amount of waste, be sure to keep this in mind.  I think pedal-powered gadgets are the wave of the future, to be honest...whether for turning compost or more likely used in applications for generating electricity, it's going to gain momentum. Check out my favorite pedal powered peeps here: http://www.wheelygoodsmoothies.com/

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Winter Composting (youtube)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7upz5WXZxg Here's my man Bentley showing how to compost all winter using those squiggly, squirmy friends of ours...worms.  He always uses cheesy music for his videos, this one is no exception.  However, the info is good enough that you nearly ignore the music anyway.  Being cold sucks.

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