#worm bin

[wormviscera]

started a worm bin last week if anyone even cares..

[totallynotcaptainplutonium]

Behold my compost, ye mighty, and despair!

[journiland]

Decided just to get a small container of worms. If I spend $40 and don't maintain them, it was a waste, and if I spend $4 and do maintain them, they'll multiply. (Look close, I dumped them in the middle.)

[journiland]

I cleaned out the worm bin today. Did not see any worms. It may have froze on the back (enclosed) porch, plus it was rather dry.

I started a new batch with my onion-cleaning scraps and a bunch of Amazon-mailer-and-junk-mail bedding. I will get worms tomorrow. I think we have a local hunting/fishing shop that raises worms themselves. I will see if I can get a larger quantity from them for reasonable. If not, I'll probably just get a little can of 30.

I'm keeping them in the kitchen. The basement or back porch is too much effort. If fruit flies become an issue, I'll deal with it then.

At least one of the buckets should be replaced soon.

Mealworms next on the list.

[homeofhousechickens]

Chicken enrichment ideas. Have your friend's worm bins set up in the same area as the chickens. The chickens will be extremely entertained by the worms moving around and even more gleeful when it's time to harvest

[ratwarning]

2am hanging with the boys

[wowbright]

Lomi Composter - Review of cost, how it works & is it worth it? | Cansumer

An in-depth review and analysis of Lomi's cost, functionality, effectiveness and marketing claims as well as who it's for and when it's not

I remember the Lomi bin being all over my dash when Darren Criss and Mia Swier got one. I wondered if it would be a smaller substitute for my worm bin, which is fairly easy to maintain but the size of a kitchen trash can (about 30 gallons), I had lots of questions about it because I couldn't understand how anything could produce usable compost in less than one day.

I have finally found a helpful article that explains the pros and cons of it. One of the cons? It doesn't actually produce compost. Basically, it combines the function of two other kitchen appliances by pulverizing (food processor or very powerful blender) and dehydrating (dehydrator or oven) your food. The finished product canNOT be used the exact same way that you would use compost, because it has not matured into a soil-like substance the way that mature compost has.

I thought that maybe it could be used to speed up composting with a worm bin, by breaking down and shrinking the food for the worms first before giving it to them. But I don't think it would be worth it for that, because if you add water to it, it expands back to its previous volume. And the rehydration aspect also means it's not ideal as a soil substitute in house plants because it can have the same issues with rotting smells, etc., as before you spent electricity on dehydrating it.

In a newer product photo on the Lomi website, I also saw that the bin is quite a bit larger than I thought, not really what I would consider "countertop" size as Lomi advertises. It looks about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of my worm bin, and about the size of a starter worm bin or the permanent worm bin of someone who doesn't do a lot of cooking or eat lots of bananas (or other fruits and vegetables that come with their own "packaging").

So I will be sticking with my worm bin.

Though now I am looking into bokashi to see if that would be another composting method appropriate for my situation ...

[wormwigwam]

Best Vermi Composting Bins

Vermicompost is the final product of composting organic material using different types of worms, such as red wigglers (Eisenia Fetida) or earthworms, to create a homogenized blend of decomposed vegetable and food waste, bedding materials and manure. https://wormwigwam.com/vermicomposting/