Worm composter

This is my worm composter. It has been up and running for 3 months now. It has been very easy to manage and upkeep. This one has 5 trays. I started using only the bottom tray. I ordered the worms online and they where overnighted to me. I mixed some kitchen craps with shredded newspaper (~40% scraps and 60% newspaper). I found that using my paper shreader to cut up the news paper which works better than ripping it up by hand. As I got more material I have filled up the top bigs. The top most big contains no compost material just "moist bedding". I feed compost into the composter about once a week, to the second to the top bin.(more if I end up cooking alot). Once a month I take the bottom bin and scoop out the dirt that is left behind from the worms. Since I feed the 2nd to top bin the food in the bottom bin at this point is 99% gone and the worms have worked their way up into the higher bins. I have to pick out a few worms from this tray and I store the dirt in a larger sealed plastic bin. This dirt is moist and very nutrient packed. I am using this dirt for my micro greens.


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