Comments on: Coffee Cup Challenge – Day 75: It’s a Wrap!

By: JOLJ

JOLJ — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:00:50 +0000

eating coffee cups, I got a paper shredder to run mail though to feed to worms.

By: Bentley

Bentley — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:03:59 +0000

Hi Celina – some people love to take strong positions on things like this. OK – bleached paper might not be the BEST carbon source – but I have added LOTS of it over the years without issue. I guess my only recommendation would not be to set up a system with only this material. Orange juice (and similar) cartons are another kettle of fish (can of worms? lol) altogether though – they are heavily waxed. My recommendation would be to recycle them instead since the wax (or perhaps plastic) coating will cause them to break down much more slowly. This post you have commented on was just for an experiment I did. I actually don’t typically try to compost these sorts of containers.

By: Celina

Celina — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 03:17:44 +0000

In my zero waste group I used this as a suggestion when someone asked what to do with their orange juice carton but was met with the criticism that this is bleached paper and should not be fed to worms. Thoughts? Any discernible effect on the worms?

By: Vernon

Vernon — Sat, 30 May 2015 01:18:24 +0000

Hi I have restarted my worm farm six months ago with worms I have collected out of garden and compost bins it is taking awhile to get numbers up. I am interest to see how is your experiment goes

By: Bentley

Bentley — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:29:44 +0000

Wow, Martha! Thanks so much for your kind words.
I’m hoping to spend quite a bit more time tending to the blog in coming weeks and months! Have a few other interesting (and related) projects up my sleeve as well. Should be fun!

You are right – there are just some people who absolutely fall under the ‘spell of the worm’. I’ve reached a point of actually being quite shocked when someone is disgusted by the idea of composting/vermicomposting. That just seems so foreign to me now!

Anyway, thanks again!
🙂

By: martha1955

martha1955 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:37:57 +0000

I’m so impressed with your blog and your worm farming! I’m a worm nerd, too. Started with it about three years ago and have spread worm colonies across the state of Virginia. Right now I’m living in Pennsylvania and experimenting with an inside-the-apartment bin. So far it has required a high tolerance for fruit flies. But I am continuing to work with the process and buying a fair amount of fly paper. As far as starting a population from scratch, I am accidentally having that same experiment myself, as I spent a ridiculous amount of money on worms and then carelessly let their environment become too hot. I lost most of them, and for a good while could only find the occasional worm or two no matter how hard I looked. After four to five months of waiting and tending, I *think* I have a modest-sized sustainable worm population again. I hope I didn’t add too much heat-producing food before I left for a week in New York. Will find out when I get home.

Good luck! I love your pictures, too! What makes some of us so susceptible to worms, I wonder?