Setting Up Your Worm Farm
Worm farms may be made from recycling plastic barrels or using old refrigerators and coolers or any suitable container with a drain-plug affixed to the bottom of it to drain off the worm's liquid waste. Worm farms may be set up outside in the shade during the summer months and moved to a garage or basement in the winter months to protect the worm farm from freezing and frost. Fill the container with plenty of soil and organic materials, then add a few worms, which will multiply. Don't overcrowd your worm farm.
Recycle Organic Kitchen Waste
A worm farm works by converting vegetable and organic kitchen waste into worm fecal matter called worm casts. The worms eat the organisms that breakdown the kitchen waste that you provide; not the actual vegetable matter itself, which you place in a layer on top of the soil. The kitchen waste may be egg shells, potato peelings, dinner leftovers, used coffee grounds and torn-up newspapers. The smaller you crush, rip or chop the organic waste, the sooner you will have converted your kitchen waste to rich worm castings.
Solid Waste, Liquid Waste
As the worms continue to ingest bacteria, the liquid waste starts to accumulate and should be drained off. The liquid waste may be diluted one cup worm drainage to one cup water and used for fertilizing the garden or fed to the house plants. The excess worms may be sold to fisherman as bait. If you own rabbits, you may start miniature worm farms by placing a few worms under the rabbit cages where their droppings accumulate. The worms will happily convert the rabbit waste to rich compost for your garden.
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