Thursday
Aug192010
Building a worm farm
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 10:27AM | Darya
Me and the BF are building a worm farm to make compost. Basically we give them our food scraps and over time they turn it into nutrient rich soil we can use in the garden.
Pretty lucky worms if you ask me.
Update: Here's the worm farm we're using.
Reader Comments (14)
Did you guys get a special kit for this? My wife has been saying for a couple months now that she really wants to start a worm farm.
Very weird yet somehow intriguing I guess
WOW! very cool, you and kevin have inspired me to start a compost!
that is very smart, I'm going to seriously look into doing that in my new place ...
side note: why are there 4 (yes four!) twitter buttons on each post ...
will you follow up with more videos? i wanted you guys to document the whole process!
@ahmad your browser having caching issues? all good here.
@ricktron totally, we're super excited!
hmmm definitely a browser bug on chrome had to take firefox out of the closet, dust it off and launch it to compare ... #falseAlarm
Very neat! I think that is something I'd like to do in the future.
This seems strange at first but it's flippen kwaai! Love it.
I've just finished adding some compost to my veggies. I have an outside compost pile composed of grass, leaves, kitchen cuttings, etc. What amazes me is, it all starts as a big messy pile and then the worms find this little heaven and next there are hundreds of them. Does wonders for my vegetables!
My father is working on making a fridge size box, running pipes through, fill with garden refuse, seal it and it will generate enough heat to warm water for showering for around 5months.
Enjoy your farm :)
So, when you get to the point of actually using that soil for your garden are you supposed to then go through this rotting compost and dig out the worms so that you can use them for the next batch? Or do you just through the baby out with the bathwater (or in this case -- worms with the dirt)?
@krubb Over time we will add new layers to the box and the worms crawl up into the new ones. You then use the lower boxes for compost. Cool huh? I'll document here the best I can.
Looks like a Taco Salad you made..
Oh cool... what type of stuff are you planting in the garden? Ever make compost tea with some of your compost? It is like friggin steroids to the plants. We plant tomatoes, lettuce, squash, zucchini and cabbage in our garden. We are wanting to plant some apple and pear trees soon as spring comes around. I am trying my hand at tapping 2 of our sugar maples this February and boiling the sap down to make maple syrup. It takes 9 gallons of sap to make 1 pint of syrup. Cant wait!