Comments on: Small Cafe Vermicomposting

By: Brian Pearcy

Brian Pearcy — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:29:08 +0000

Diana,

I feed my worms a lot of coffee grounds but it will be awhile before I can rival the vermicomposting going on at the Dunkin Donuts in St. Petersburg, FL. They have 80 lbs of worms in the parking lot that process coffee grounds.

Read the article on Ecobcil.com (http://www.ecobcil.com/blog/florida-dunkin-donuts-has-massive-solar-powered-worm-bin) that explains all the details. The article includes a picture of the patented industrial sized worm bin.

By: kathy

kathy — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:19:12 +0000

Here in Louisville, KY, a local chain of coffee shops, Heine Brothers, worm composts their grounds.
http://www.breakingnewgrounds.org

By: Jacques

Jacques — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:22:20 +0000

Don’t know about any businesses in your area, but here in South Africa there is one that I know of. You even reported on it once on your site http://www.redwormcomposting.com/reader-questions/restaurant-vermicomposting-question/

The Lord Nelson hotel in Cape Town.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:55:53 +0000

Well, I knew of a restaurant here in Tucson that used composting to compliment its own garden (it was a vegan/gypsy gig – pretty crazy experience) but I don’t know if they used worms. +1 for composting though.

By: Duff in VT

Duff in VT — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:54:34 +0000

I am fairly new to this and have lots of coffee grounds… that my worms seem to detest. Why? They are not the flavored kind, just regular brew. I have even put them in my worm-laden garden. The worms avoid them totally, living in bliss in nearby corrugated cardboad. I have offers of lots more grounds from friends, but would only use them as mulch at this point. I’d love any tips from those whose worms enjoy the grounds ! What do you do to the grounds to make them acceptable to the worms?