You Know You Are A True Worm-Head When…

Rich A.
#1. January 14th, 2009, at 6:41 PM.

Your 2-year-old has his own pretend “worm bin”.

Patricia
#2. January 14th, 2009, at 7:17 PM.

You stand in line at Starbucks for the free grounds instead of the double mocha latte with a boost.

vermiman
#3. January 15th, 2009, at 2:10 AM.

: You have watched the Dirty Jobs show about worm farming and you ask yourself “Where’s the dirty part of the job?”

:You count egg capsules and start naming potential hatchlings.

:In your war against commercial chemical fertilizers, you want to play TAPPS and have a 21 gun salute when a fellow soldier(worm) dies.

:Your a disabled man, but you dig another 6X3X3 pit on your hands and knees to expand your squirm.

:When you name your first two kids Wiggley and Squiggley.

:When you think about starting a vacuum bag recycling program to feed your worms.

:When you look around your neighborhood for piles of leaves and cut grass to use as bedding for your worms.

:When you frequent the local stores to ask for aged vegetables for your wormy friends to eat.

George
#4. January 15th, 2009, at 2:11 AM.

When the young children visit, they step over the dogs to visit the worms

Mark from Kansas
#5. January 15th, 2009, at 2:26 AM.

A poem from my wife:

Recipe for a wormhead
A wormhead has alot of passion
To make this happen you gotta ration
To make a combo of compost into soil
You need leaves, garbage but please hold the oil
You make this barrel so you can churn
And add a windwhirl so it can turn
In the process this begins to get hot
Lets throw in some egg shells, coffee and grass in the pot
As it rots in this barrel and goes through it’s phase
The wormhead has this look of amaze
Then juices start flowing and we’ll call it teas
He hands it to me as food for my trees
He’s getting it all ready and here comes the worms
He’s gaining anxiety for all that he’s learned
Now here comes the good part that all has been done
He’s prospering well for all he’s begun

allochthon
#6. January 15th, 2009, at 8:19 PM.

Dirty Jobs did a vermicomposting segment? Sweet!

I love living a life where saying “I have to go water my worms” actually makes sense…

Andy
#7. January 16th, 2009, at 1:47 PM.

You go out to eat, eye other peoples leftovers that would make great worm food and you sneak some into your pocket to bring home…of course your pocket has a baggie for just such occasions.

You asked your friends and family to save worm food for you.

Your Christmas card has a picture with you and your worms. You realize later, only when someone points it out, that your spouse and kids were not in the photo.

When touching poop is not a scary thing anymore.

Scott Bryce
#8. January 16th, 2009, at 3:54 PM.

You keep a zip lock bag in your car just in case you find something you can feed your worms laying on the ground.

You have stopped your car by the side of the road to pick up a banana peel someone dropped while crossing the street.

You shred every piece of paper you toss out, not just the paper with confidential information on it.

When your shredder gets full, you keep the contents.

When you shred the envelopes from the power company, you cut the plastic windows out first.

Your friends give you wilted produce as gifts.

Sherry
#10. January 16th, 2009, at 7:40 PM.

So MANY of these fit me. I drool walking into a store, looking at the storage bins.

–Ask the produce worker if you can have his “leavings” when he cleans up the produce.

–Decide if you want to keep the leftovers for yourself or feed to the worms.

rick davis
#11. January 16th, 2009, at 7:57 PM.

…when you tell people you have worms and your smiling.
…when your spouse knows your a little off but saves scrapes anyway, or is that love?
….when you lay awake at night and wonder about your worms.
….when you go to check on them and the moving mass of diving reds just makes your heart warm.
…when all you ask for for Christmas has to do with worms.

Angie Hill
#12. January 16th, 2009, at 8:17 PM.

Ah yes….I live in the UK but all this sounds sooo familiar! I, too, find myself regarding the past their sell by date veg and other food as potential worm food-When I’m at a Pub, or Restaurant, I eye the left overs with a glint in my eye, summoning up the courage to ask for a “doggy bag” to take home (or should that be a wormy bag? On courses, where we share lunch, I am the only one taking home other people’s leftovers! Not forgetting Freecycle as a source of wormy accessories and homes. I’ve been known to go up the garden to cover my wormery with extra fleece/bubble wrap in my pyjamas on cold nights! I’ve ceased worrying what the neighbours think! Worms make me smile….I talk to mine! How about you?

vermiman
#13. January 17th, 2009, at 12:00 AM.

(W)hen
(O)ur
(R)elatives
(M)urmur
(S)ecretly

Scott Dickens
#14. January 17th, 2009, at 12:14 AM.

When you make RED WORM COMPOSTING your home page.

When you put on rubber glove so the worms won’t get anything from off your hands.( even though you washed them twice ).

Carolyn
#15. January 17th, 2009, at 3:57 AM.

I love those comments… and got the funniest looks when I asked the church ladies that came over for tea if thy wanted to see my woyms…. I shoulda had my camera…. but guess what? Two of them said Yes… they are gardeners, so were quite interested.. and I am going to help one of them get started in vermiculture this spring..
I have gotten to the point where I ask the local produce manager for wilted lettuce, etc.. and he gives it to me.. wooo hooo

Laina
#16. January 17th, 2009, at 11:01 PM.

When you worry about how your worms are while away on vacation…

When you start to worry if you’re too excited about poop…

When you can sit for hours watching your worm bin…

All of the other comments are sooooo true! Its very reassuring!

Denise
#17. January 18th, 2009, at 3:02 AM.

you show mating worms to your son and don’t understand why he isn’t as excited as you are even though you exclaim, “But you don’t understand how exciting this is!”

your boss gets you a kitchen composter for Christmas! (thanx, John!)

lose count of how many cocoons there are when you’re harvesting.

Robyn
#18. January 19th, 2009, at 2:31 PM.

when your proper and dignified mother proudly gives you a bag of carrot peelings she saved for your worms.

Also, when your mother buys a Worm Inn in support of your project, but then does nothing with it. bless her heart…

Karen
#19. January 19th, 2009, at 3:35 PM.

you keep your worms in the living room for fear they will get too cold (in the winter) and too hot (in the summer-I live in south FL).

Kim from Milwaukee
#21. January 19th, 2009, at 9:39 PM.

…when you’re seriously considering having your ashes poured onto your wormbin (is that sick or what?)

Kim from Milwaukee
#22. January 19th, 2009, at 9:50 PM.

just thought of another one…….when the thought of feeding some of your worms to your baby finches breaks your heart.

vermiman
#23. January 20th, 2009, at 1:19 AM.

When you prepare new worm beds months before harvesting.

vermiman
#24. January 22nd, 2009, at 4:50 AM.

When you know your ABCs:

Amazing Bin Crawlers!@!

stewart van horn
#25. January 25th, 2009, at 3:14 AM.

hi,

i just found your website this evening. i enjoyed your stories. i just started vermicomposting last month, i guess it is going okay.

i am writing about your excess compost materials. i have a small orchard (about 70 trees). i have been placing an approximate 4-foot wide strip of straw along the rows (i get the straw from a farmer who i let plant corn in one of my fields). this straw acts as a mulch as well as keeping down the grass to give the tree roots a place they can grow with minimal competition.

anyway, the point of the story, is that i throw excess kitchen scraps into the rows and cover them with straw. that way the scraps still degrade, but the straw makes it asthetically acceptable to my wife.

hope this helps — i enjoyed your site,

stewart

Larry
#26. January 27th, 2009, at 1:29 AM.

You start a worm bin because you are too cheap to keep buying them, but once you get it going, you won’t let your fishing buddies anywhere near your babies.

Nathan
#27. May 5th, 2009, at 7:04 PM.

…you visit Redwormcomposting.com multiple times per day.

…you tell your friends that no newspaper or cardboard boxes are safe in your house.

…you stet up your own neighborhood recycling center for cardboard boxes, old newspapers, vegetable scrapes, coffee grounds/filters, and tea bags.

… your friends think you are weird because you take home all the pizza boxes from the pizza party.

… your friends, instead of going to the recycling center, just give you all their cardboard boxes.

… your teacher wants you to write a report on any pet of your choice and tell how to take care of it, you write one about your worms.

craig
#28. January 5th, 2010, at 7:37 AM.

you’ve just read through all the archived posts on redwormcomposting.com in case you missed something cool. you did.