UPDATE:
We have modified this original design to a shallower, more airy worm bin. Check out our new design here, Born Again Worm Bin and its progress here Vermicompost: Our Worm Bin Rocks!. Cheers! Good Luck!
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Barb Finnin is part of the amazing Freshtopia team. She’s a certified master composter- her specialty is Vermicomposting with worms. We were super excited to learn that we could compost in our city apartment with a homemade worm bin even though we don’t have a yard. Throwing food scraps away in the garbage is not something either of us enjoys, so having a green alternative has been more than satisfying for our sustainability goals. After 4 weeks, our worms are happy and thriving.
Find out more about Vermicomposting and other forms of composting on Wikipedia. Visit Barb at Freshtopia.net.
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i love long video
this could have been 45 more minutes
as long as i’m inspired and learning
there’s no rush.
i live on an acre of land so
all my scraps go to the yard
i’ve even begun to piss and poo
outside
can i type “poo” here?
feel free to delete comment
anyways
great work!
if i still lived in new york city
i would have implemented these techniques.
I have grown my own rolly polly colony
with green tea leaves, coffee grounds &
egg shells.
The blujays and red robins eat left over
dry dog food that gets soggy from the mist, i set it by rain water bowls.
They are pregnant here in spring and ready to birth.
Best Regards
woke up last week, one morning, and found myself in philadelphia. turned on this particular vlog entry and as everyone in the apartment woke up.. they sat next to me and watched the composting!
this is possibly my favorite long video ever. i couldnt stop watching. i read a book about composting last year but have a hard enough time getting my roommates to recycle, so i just think about it a lot. this is so helpful and important and now i wanna come over and meet your worms!
I cannot wait to do this. Seriously. I’m all over it. I want worms!
i need to film(video) vermicompost production. compost tea film
thank you
What about bugs?
We sometimes get cases of tiny flies, but they usually go away after a couple days. The key is not overfeeding the worms so there is rotting food, and keeping plenty of newspaper fluffed up inside the box so the flies can;t get inside and lay eggs.
Honestly, as long as there is air circulating in your worm bin, food decomposes cleanly.
do you think it would be a good idea to design a product to facilitate indoor composting. perhaps using an alternative to worms and ensuring it is a clean, odourless, and easy process. i am currently involved in a college industrial design project to design such a product.
Hey Luke…I think indoor composting is extremely important. Urban folks shouldn’t feel helpless in being smart about their waste. How would you do indoor composting without worms. Also, no chemicals.
my roommate and i had our apt. compost for about a month and it didn’t smell or anything bad.. it seemed to be working really well actually, but we noticed we had ton of fruit flies in our house and they were nesting in it so we had to throw it away..
is there any way to avoid this problem?? we really want to try again..
thank you!
misty
If you put wadded paper in the top of the bin, then flies don’t have room to fly in and lay eggs.