Envirocycle compost tumbler full of worms???

In the wintertime, I take my composting efforts indoors to pay attention to the worms.  We had yet another uncharacteristically warm day here (if just one more person says "omg i love global warming lol"...ugh ), so I checked out the composter...full of worms! It had just rained, and the inside was a bit damp...so my guess is that the earthworms were just looking for warm, moist ground and they found it in there.  They also found a lot of stuff they probably weren't used to, like a Sun Chips bag trying to degrade, and some paper packaging material that I lazily threw in without ripping it up, just for fun. I get a lot of emails talking about worms in the composter...these worms are almost certainly just earthworms (sorry…

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It doesn’t need to be fancy…

When I visited home for the holidays, I had to take a look and see what my mom's old composting area looked like.  This really spun me out because I remember making this little frame out of cinder blocks a long time ago and it looked good.  What's funny is that if you want to compost, you can make do with this just fine...just make space and add stuff to it in appropriate quantities. Next to this was a nice looking compost bin...again, it does the trick.  You can add material nice and high and it stays fairly organized.  Note the slits near bottom which double as a spot to anchor it to the ground as well as provide some needed air circulation.  Way to go, mom! To start composting,…

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