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Heater Update - one month, Part 2

I checked out the bin today expecting to have to bail out a sea of mud and was surprised. The whole thing is drying out a lot faster than i would have expected. And i had gotten the new tote and screen all ready to filter the water out too. But it does look as thou it got wetter before things started getting dryer. The hole i made and the extra cardboard up top did make a remarkable difference. First i put 4 layers of cardboard on top of the cardboard that was already there. To try to keep mor… Continue

Added by Eve on November 7, 2009 at 12:36am — 2 Comments

Heater Update - one month

I had to chuckle when i reread one of my own comments on my last blog. "So i added water to the catchment area, i don't plan to harvest again until spring, so extra water down there won't hurt anything" That has to be one of the worst predictions i have ever made. As you may recall I put a coil of heating hose in the catchment area. With so little air movement everything is very wet. Steam? rises up through the compost wetting everything in the FT. The whole thing is wetter then any tote i hav… Continue

Added by Eve on November 2, 2009 at 11:30pm — 5 Comments

additional 'earth friendly' project

In addition to my indoor worm bin and my big outdoor regular garden compost bins and my new vegetable garden, I've now become a beekeeper as well. (!) A friend gave me her established active honey bee hive which we moved to my yard 27 miles from her farm. Here it is set up behind my veggie garden:

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Added by Strumelia on November 1, 2009 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments

Community Supported Agriculture

I was invited to attend a new member orientation at Gamble Creek Farm in Parrish, Florida on Saturday morning. We joined the farm membership program to ensure that we have a reliable source of locally grown vegetables.

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Added by bpearcy10 on October 25, 2009 at 4:13pm — 6 Comments

Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?

I spent 5 minutes at the local grocery store this afternoon conducting an informal survey. This survey was meant to validate an article I read on Huffington Post earlier today. A short quiz (answers below) -- 1. Where does salmon come from? 2. Where do artichoke hearts come from? 3. Water chestnuts? 4. Cactus? 5. What about mushrooms? 6. Mayonaise? Answers: 1. Thailand o… Continue

Added by bpearcy10 on October 25, 2009 at 3:07pm — 7 Comments

BSFL bin - 2 week update

It's only been 2 weeks, but so far neither excessive moisture or smell has been a problem. Since I regularly add coffee grounds, the predominant smell is coffee-ish. It doesn't smell like worm compost, but there's nothing close to offensive about the smell...so far. :-) I'm on the 3rd version of my DIY BSFL bin. I've modified it to a bin-within-a-bin design. The smaller bin houses the feeding area. This 5 gal. bin always has condensation on the walls. The mature grubs easily crawl up the vertic… Continue

Added by Andrew on October 24, 2009 at 4:35pm — 10 Comments

1st to escape!

I found my first escapee this morning. S/he was about 8 ft away from the bin, all dry and wiggling with regret. Five months with only one getting out is not that bad. Especially since we get them out a lot and we could have actually left it out ourselves. The babies are so small, I'm never sure that I have gotten all of them back in. I'm just thankful I'm the one who found it! Continue

Added by Paponda on October 20, 2009 at 4:43am — No Comments

Can I get an honest group opinion ??

I have been worm farming for a little while and now setting up a non profit organization to form a cooperative of worm farmers in the USA. I have finally completed my website and need some input on what others think of it. Please be as honest as you can but try not to be too brutal as I am still kind of new at this. I think things are going well since i have the college in my area to back me with a meeting of our local government to bring this to a larger scale locally so hoping to grow real f… Continue

Added by mikeschieck on October 19, 2009 at 9:01pm — 32 Comments

The Great Migration

I stopped adding food to my first earth worm bin on October 1. I've put my second homemade bin, bottom full of holes on top of it, added newspaper and a little food. Worms were actually starting to travel to the new bin inside of a week. This setup is in my unheated garage. It's cover is an old t-shirt. I'm wondering if when it gets much colder, I can put the plastic lid back atop the bin to hold in heat. I don't know whether this will happen or it will just prevent evaporation, leaving the worm… Continue

Added by Anna Rich on October 19, 2009 at 3:23pm — No Comments

Sustainable Farming

We have implemented vermicomposting into our household and used the vermicast to plant our square foot gardening project. Next, I'd like to add aquaculture coupled with hydroponics/aeroponics to form the third portion of our strategy. My difficulty is that I live a restrictive subdivision so I'd have to formulate a system that is compact, but effective at the same time. I discovered Growing Power in May of this year and I've been s… Continue

Added by bpearcy10 on October 18, 2009 at 2:19pm — 2 Comments

Splitting my worm bin into 2 bins

After 3 months in an indoor Rubbermaid setup, I decided to move half of my worms into a second bin in the hopes of getting them to reproduce more quickly and consume more kitchen waste over the winter. After posting a few questions on the forums, I thought I would try to just move some adults to the new bin this morning and see how it goes. After about 5 minutes of trying to pull adults from the bedding and castings, I gave up and started pulling hunks of damp bedding/worms/castings and moved t… Continue

Added by Tony D on October 15, 2009 at 9:46am — 2 Comments

BSFL experiment: The grubs have arrived!

My curiosity about BSFL was too great to wait until next year to seed my own local colony. So I cheated and bought a "BSF multi-stage starter kit" from Jerry at blacksoldierflyblog.com. The kit includes hundreds of juvenile & mature grubs along with a "hatchery" that contains a few clutches of eggs (hopefully another 2,000 juvenile grubs in a few weeks) and the baby grubs born in the 2 days it took to get to CA from GA. Here's an unpacking video that shows the grubs & my mini-bin. Pleas… Continue

Added by Andrew on October 12, 2009 at 11:30pm — 15 Comments

My life as a vermicomposter: a short history

About 10 yrs. ago (maybe longer), I bought a county-subsidized Wriggly Wranch Worm system (WWW) and stocked it with a pound of worms. Despite (I'm ashamed to say) mostly neglect, the worm herd survived through the years. Several months ago the WWW was knocked over by an animal (dog, raccoon or possum). I didn't notice this in time and the herd was no more. My sister, who is involved with her kids' school food recycling efforts, asked me for my now empty worm bins. I figured she'd be a better st… Continue

Added by Andrew on October 6, 2009 at 9:00pm — 4 Comments

It's taken me a year but I've got clever worms!!

I was very excited about celebrating 1 year of having worms and was just starting to think I've got the hang of things when they brought me to my knees with a great big bang.Since I've moved my bins outside into a shady spot in my vegetable garden I've really seen their numbers increase drastically and I can only attribute that to only checking in on them twice a week...Yes it is possible!But last week something extra-ordinary happened.I got up from my computer after visiting the website gigglin… Continue

Added by Lizette Janse van Vuuren on October 6, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Flow Through Bin variation: transparent & modular

Hello, everyone. This is my first post. In fact, this is the first time I've joined a social networking site. I've refused dozens of requests from friends around the world to join Facebook, etc. and instead I join a group focused on worms. I can just imagine what my friends will say. :-) I've been inspired to attempt a DIY Flow Through (FT) bin after reading the hundreds of posts in the multiple "My flow through bins" threads. Thanks to everyone who documented their experiences...entertaining &… Continue

Added by Andrew on October 5, 2009 at 8:00pm — 15 Comments

Live Worm Birth

It's a short (8 Min.) video. http://s682.photobucket.com/albums/vv188/steamyb/ Hope you enjoy it! Continue

Added by steamyb on October 4, 2009 at 8:35am — 4 Comments

Been a while since checked in...

Yesterday I spent about 3.5 hours doing maintenance to my bin... I started off with only about 15 smalls holes in the bottom(I remember reading 100's would be better) So I shifted bin contents from one side to the other, lifted up the screen, drilled about 100+ holes and re-hot glue gunned the screen down and around. I was surprised at just how many worms I saw, and I also think they've gotten bigger because there were a lot of little ones last time. There was also a decent amount of worm poop… Continue

Added by Michael on October 4, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Fall - sigh..

Despite all my planning for cold weather i wasn't expecting it to hit quit so fast. Just 3 days ago the weather was in the low 80'sF (25C). Two nights ago it snowed in the higher mountains. This morning i had to scrapping ice off the car windows. It only got to 60 (15C) today. I was unpleasantly surprised to find my worm bin even colder when i got home this evening, 48F (9C). I still haven't bought the sheet insulation for the bin so i was forced to improvise. I wrapped the bin and the bucket o… Continue

Added by Eve on September 30, 2009 at 7:50pm — 14 Comments

"Flow Through" is the answer to Home Vermicomposting, now have 3 bins going.

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Added by Mark Shaw on September 25, 2009 at 11:34am — 8 Comments

Its a small world

In town today i spotted a old Isuzu pickup with a "support global worming" sticker on the tailgate. My thought. Well its a small world and I'm not all that alone here abouts. Later during the 30 mile drive home i spotted the Isuzu again, right in front of me when turning off onto my road. Real surprised to find he only lives 3 miles from me. Kind of makes me feel like i am not so alone in this worming thing. And then there was another nice surprise. A pile of horse poo in my driveway. Couldn't… Continue

Added by Eve on September 23, 2009 at 8:23pm — 13 Comments

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