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How do you Empty the Worm Inn? (video)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDlgJdJPJc4 I've been getting a lot of email regarding how to empty the Worm Inn composting system: How do you get the castings out? How do you keep the worms from escaping? Do you have to screen through all the material you just put in? All questions with super simple answers. Since worms eat the material from the bottom up, they leave behind their precious castings. As you can see in the video, you simply open the drawstrings and take them out. If you find a worm, you've reached the end of your castings and you simply put the worm back in the top of the Worm Inn. There may be an odd piece of unprocessed material as you dig through the castings, but as with the worms, just put…

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…

Vermicompost tea…or is it leachate?

Recognize this stuff? That's the bin under the worm bin... yummy worm leachate. Notice I didn't say worm tea... worm tea is a bit of a process to create, while leachate is just a fancy word for drainage. As with compost leachate, this stuff smells disgusting until you aerate the heck out of it. Here's a great article linking to compost tea/compost leachate by my man Bentley Christie over at Red Worm Composting...check it out: http://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/using-worm-bin-leachate/