Compost with worms in your home

Compost with worms in your home

Fox Hutt starts with this rich compost, which is worm castings

from her worm bins, when mixing a batch of potting soil.

Conveniently feed your food scraps to red worms or “wigglers” in your home. They will turn your waste into rich “vermicompost”.
Some advantages to vermicomposting:

It produces less odor and attracts fewer pests than putting food wastes in the garbage.
It saves the water and electricity that a sink garbage disposal unit would use.
It requires little space or labor.
It produces a high quality fertile compost. Worm castings are a natural fertilizer.
It keeps food wastes out of the landfill. Food waste in the landfill decomposes without oxygen, creating methane gas which is a major contributor to global warming.

   All you need to vermicompost are a worm bin, bedding, water, worms, and food scraps.
    You can buy a worm bin, or simply use a plastic bin or wooden box. It will need a cover for darkness, and holes for air circulation.
    The worms need to burrow in bedding to bury the garbage. Shredded paper, cardboard, or leaves will work. Keep the bedding moist.
    Use only redworms or “wigglers” which are composting worms.
    Feed your worms non-meat kitchen waste, such as vegetable or fruit scraps, tea bags, coffee grounds, and paper coffee filters.
    You can find good information about keeping a worm bin on the internet, www.thewormfarm.net, or on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden site, www.bbg.org ; Or you can borrow the excellent little book, Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof, from the Boyle County Library.