How to Add Bedding to a Worm Bin

Here's my quick tips for how to add food scraps and a new layer of bedding to your worm system.  The key is to keep your food scraps covered with damp bedding. Here's how a worm system dying for new material looks: 1) Fill bucket with cardboard.  I have about half a bucket here, which is enough for my Worm Inn Mega. 2) Add enough water to submerge all the cardboard...you'll notice it only takes an inch of water...cardboard shrivels up significantly when you push down on it. 3) Let the cardboard soak.  I made a smoothie while I waited.  Drain out the excess water. 4) Add your food scraps first, followed by your damp bedding.  This is key!  You want the bedding to cover your food scraps entirely to…

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Pingree introduces bill to reduce food waste, create energy

(original post at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/12/pingree-introduces-bill-to-reduce-food-waste-creat/ ) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree is calling for a comprehensive plan to reduce food waste. The Democrat says her proposal will help farms, retailers, restaurants and schools waste less food. She says it will also divert high-quality food to food banks and turn non-edible scraps into energy or compost. Pingree’s office says 40 percent of food produced in the country is wasted and uneaten food costs $161 billion annually. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Whenever I see a news headline about governments trying to mandate composting in some form, I get excited but I also worry what is being pitched.  Is she really worried more about wasted food instead of emissions and soil infertility? I can't tell if these people genuinely think that incineration ('waste…

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