While this may gross some people out, this is our worm bin. We made it ourselves and it cost us less than $10 using this tutorial. I would have taken a picture of the inside but I didn't think anyone would truly appreciate it, especially the worms since they do not like to be disturbed. Worm composting or Vermiculture is a very simple, economical and fast solution to composting if you: 1) Do not have much space and 2) Do not want to have to deal with the sometimes complex nature of traditional composting.
Worm composting produces the best kind of compost you can get: worm castings. You can't compost with just ANY worms though, you need Redworms, or Eisenia foetida. These little guys eat half their body weight every day and with one pound of Redworms you will have about 5 gallons of worms castings in around two months.
Redworms, as you might imagine, eat organic material. Their bedding is made up of strips of newspaper that have been moistened so that they can breathe. They eat the newspaper. They also like to eat kitchen scraps. They just LOVE rotting organic material. The only things that they do not eat are meat and dairy. As far as pet's go they are very easy and prefer to be left alone to reproduce and eat.
So, does anyone have any questions?
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Ha! I love this! Where do you keep them ... in the garage? Where do you buy them and how much do they cost initially?
Thanks for sharing!
I keep our worm bin in a corner of our basement. Worms like a pretty constant temperature and if they get too hot they will die. That said you can keep them just about anywhere so long as you make sure they aren't exposed to extremes in temperature. I have heard of some people keeping them under their kitchen sink.
I got mine off of eBay. A pound of redworms will cost about $30 and you get about 600 worms off all ages. So this whole project only cost me $40. A rolling traditional compost bin retails around $150-300. This way I get compost faster and with pretty minimal effort.
You know *I* would have appreciated a picture of the inside.
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