Comments on: Cooking up a Holiday Worm Treat

By: sam hutchens

sam hutchens — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:54:44 +0000

Go to you tube “the Yardfarmer”. Check out his compost aerator. I use this to mix veggies (that have been run through a blender and frozen until I have a couple of gallons) with cardboard 2″x2″ pieces (use a Paper cutter) in a 5 gal. bucket. Mix once every day or two, and in a week or two you have the best worm food ever! If it needs water, I get it from my aquarium. Full of microbes. I also made a “easy roll” worm bin from his instructions. It works great. Give it a try.

By: Bentley

Bentley — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:46:07 +0000

Hi David,
There are likely some worms around the perimeter and down near the bottom, but yeah this bin is NOT intended for vermicomposting at the moment (is a food creation bin).

VB48 refers to my VermBin48 – aka “The Beast”.
Here is the latest post about it (at time of posting this comment):
http://www.redwormcomposting.com/vermbins/the-beast-12-28-12/

Here is a link to the VermBin Plans page:
http://www.redwormcomposting.com/vermbin-series-plans/

By: David

David — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:04:48 +0000

Wow, looked like there were a ton of mites in there. I take it there are no worms in the system and you are just decomposing it for the worms in another system? Also, whats VB48 mean? Sorry if you already covered this in another post, I’m just getting back into your blog after a little bit of a hiatus.

By: Bentley

Bentley — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:51:40 +0000

Hi Julie – it’s not so much “living material” I’m trying to create as it is actual food (although the food mixes will certainly be microbially-active by the time they get added to my vermicomposting systems). But yes, this bin is now solely for food creation. It’s going to be either too hot or too cold most of the time to be an effective vermicomposting system. My actual winter bed (with tarp over it) will be much better suited for keeping an active worm population.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:55:31 +0000

So the work you are doing in the outdoor bin isn’t about trying to start worms there? It’s primarily a method to create “living material” out of the food scraps in your freezer?