Without a Winter Worm Worry

I live in a super old and drafty house, and in the wintertime I always wonder if my worms will survive.  The worms reside in the colder half of my basement, but apparently it's no problem for them: I was reading my Worm Briefs email subscription and there were testimonials of people that had worms surviving in both sub zero and above 100F temperatures!  Check this out: "I've had redworms survive Winnipeg winters for 2 years in a row.  Frost gets down past 6" as I recall (could be wrong) and we do get rather severe winter temperatures. This year we have a thick blanket of snow but last year the sledders were complaining quite a bit.  Not sure of temperatures under the snow but this evening we're at -32…

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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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My Life With Worms by Bentley Christie (review)

  I've been following Bentley Christie's Red Worm Composting site for quite some time now, just reading over the material and watching videos to prep myself for suddenly owning 1,000 pets. Other than the first night where nearly every worm in the bin tried to escape (I realized there weren't enough air holes!), it's been a breeze maintaining them and watching them multiply. His expertise certainly helped me become a professional in short time, and I thank him for that. His writing style is a trip, and I've been begging him to write a guest article for this page for quite some time (feel free to harass him). When he told me he was near completion with writing a book, I was thinking to myself "finally, the end-all be-all worm…

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