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A lot of us have started their journey into vermicomposting with homemade composters such as brocolis styrofoam boxes, rubbermaid trays or even some simple wooden crate or stacking trays for the most skilled. And that works just fine, worms are happy and we get our black gold
after couple of months.
As we progress we learned that ideally a tray needs to run for at least 120 days for the vermicompost to be safe to be used. Or we don't care cuz we don't sell and we are cow-boys...
but we don't need the castings right away however
foodscraps are still generated.
So what the domestic worm farmer
first do is either start a new bin, add a new
tray and eventually start a new bin, upgrade to a stacking trays system and eventually start a new bin.
Starting new bins can sometimes be addictive, especially when you have space for them. I remember always looking at what people are throwing out on the side of the road for any container or material that can be used to build a worm bin.
I finally end up having 8 worm farms (Worm Cafe style) with three active trays each.
That worked great, I could process all of my food scraps and more and that was exciting. However I soon realised that feeding 8 farms is much more effort than feeding just one:
- open lid
- remove blanket
- check moisture
- check previous food is gone
- add bedding
- add pH buffer
- add food
- lift all trays to see if the worms are not drowning in the leachate tray
- drain the leachate tray if needed
- re-stack the trays
- put the blanket back
- put the lid back
Can't you have just one single farm that can handle all this?
Well yes you can and the options I will discuss now are still accessible (read affordable) to the domestic worm farmers and remove the need for lifting heavy trays.
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by thelittlewormfarm.com