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What kinds of worms are best for composting? Red Wigglers are the most highly recommended composting worms. Other worms that you find in your garden may not survive in a bin. How many worms should I start with? Recommend you start with 1 pound, purchased from a reputable worm grower online or in person. It’s [...]
We’ve tried a bunch of foods in our bins at home and have a nice list for you to keep things simple. It’s easy to make worms happy if you feed your red worms a variety of foods they love. LOVE: Vegetable scraps, e.g, apple cores, peels, carrot tops and wilted lettuce or trimmings. Try any vegetable that’s [...]
The easiest way to get started with worms is to create your own worm bin. Anyone can do it! Kids love worms and adults find many uses for them besides recycling household scraps – think fishing and feeding your chickens! Pick up a small plastic container or better yet, use one that you already have. The [...]
Take a gander at this close-up of a red worm cocoon – looks like a miniature lemon. These little baby sacks are fascinating! 5 Fun Facts About Red Worm Eggs 1) Walt Disney may not be cryogenically frozen under Disneyland… but it’s no urban legend that red worms can survive a deep freeze. Worm cocoons can hang out unprotected in snow [...]
There are rolling drums, spheres and crank operated models. Some compost tumblers sit on a sturdy base and tumble vertically. Some rotate horizontally on rollers. If you want to invent the next workout craze, get together with some friends and roll around those ball-like tumblers. On second thought, this could cause too much frustration – they [...]
The Home Grown Fun Family put on a composting fair at an elementary school in Southern California. Check out how we did it. Create your own and improve on our ideas! See the video and notice that we had several learning stations and exhibits. Contact us and we can send you our plan and some tips. [...]
A video that shows composting is fun! Kids love learning how it helps the environment and makes awesome garden soil! Kids moved from station to station and learned how keeping household waste away from landfills prevents dangerous gases from rising into the air and seeping into the ground! They were amazed that food scraps can be recycled to make awesome garden [...]
Have you seen this tumbler? It’s $98 bucks at Costco! But hold off a bit before you lay down a hundred smackers on this seemingly great deal. UPDATE ON PERFORMANCE Our first batch of compost came out pretty good. It took 2.5 months to get this: 18 days after start of batch: Please watch the [...]
Vermicomposting has taken off at homes and schools. It’s fun and makes the best fertilizer nature has to offer. By recycling food waste properly, we keep the yukky stuff out of our landfills and prevent dangerous gases from releasing into the air and seeping into the earth. Worm castings are safe to handle, make the purest form of [...]
Urban Compost Tumbler Filling Our Urban Composter – This Model is Much Bigger Than Costco’s We have the largest model (9.5 cubic ft) and it has given us compost in 4 weeks. The larger the better if you are serious about composting. If you would like to try it out, go for a smaller model or one [...]
Hair is a renewable resource! Pounds of hair get wasted every day and lost in landfills. Like tumbleweeds rolling around in the desert, these misplaced clumps and drainage gooh can be put to use for the good of humanity. There are plenty of ways you can reuse human hair and if you are ready to do [...]
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Wowza – you’ve probably got a bunch of this stuff hanging around your house. Once used, it can be composted into soil amendment! Top 5 Tips for the Best Compost Mix You can compost almost anything but meat, cheese and fatty/greasy foods. There are Brown (carbon-rich) materials and Green (nitrogen-rich) materials. You need both for the [...]
Go ahead, rip up your homework! Did you know that paper works great in the compost pile? Most kids bring home pages of completed lessons and homework every week. You can recycle that paper at home by tearing it up into small pieces and putting into your compost. You can make your soil smarter or [...]
