📺 "How to build a worm composter: A simple DIY vermicomposting project (Audio Described)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwk95jWMaBQ&t=63

#composting #gardening #vermicomposting #crafts #diy

#VermiComposting #WormFarm

I found it in my worm farm. 😭 Thought it might be a mite, but this one has claws... I also don't know how to make the picture upload clearer. I've had my bin for almost a year now, and it's the first time I've seen this.

It's about 0.5cm long. The length of the claws are the same length as its body. It looks like scorpion claws. 8 legs...

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After taking a break and having to go back to work, I've discovered that this is a pseudoscorpion. Turns out that they are totally harmless and actually beneficial! They eat other bugs and they ignore the worms.

They also hunt the little flies that seem to plague worm bins. So now that I know what this is, it's going back in to the bin. :blobcat_starstruck:

Edit: Turns out there are more! When I picked up a little piece of newspaper to scoop it out of the little bowl, there were some hidden in the folds of the newspaper. Yay! Adding a few tags.

#Bugs #Pseudoscorpion #Arachnid #TodayILearned #TIL #Composting #Compost #Vermiculture #Worms

I'm thinking about getting into #vermicomposting. Someone should talk me out of this idea

@Muzyrja And #hugelkultur, #compost, #Vermiculture, #vermicomposting, #rewilding

ReSCHEDULED to rain date Sun - Earth day stuff at #SomervilleMA Growing Center https://www.thegrowingcenter.org/2025
Earth Day: Rooted in Resilience (Seasonal)

Sun, April 27, 2:00-4:00 pm

Come to the Center for the afternoon of Somerville's Earth Day celebration, following the morning events at South St Farm with #Groundwork Somerville ! Learn about ways to sustain yourself and the Earth. Demonstrations of #vermicomposting and making ink from natural materials. Explore volunteer opportunities with the Growing Center and activism with local #climate & justice focused groups. Visit the #Pollinator Gardens and make native seed balls. Pot up a Red Fire Farm herb seedling to take home (limited supply). Exchange garden supplies with other gardeners. Check our social media for updates on developing details.
#BostonWeekend 7/x

Does anyone has any experience with in the ground wormeries? #vermicomposting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR9TzAK3jMo

plastic free worm composting bins

#vermicomposting #vermiculture #Vermicompost 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

If you're trying to get started with #composting all you need is

- an open space on the ground
- a lot of carbon (wood chips, cardboard, old hay, dried leaves)
- some nitrogen (food waste, grass clippings, coffee grounds, manure, etc)
- to keep the pile moist (moisture is the foundation of decomposition)
- to flip it occasionally as to not let it go anaerobic (the "good guys" need air and "bad guys" make for the nasty version of compost you don't want near your food gardens)

You need way more carbon than you think you do. No carbon? Go for a #vermicomposting bin instead. Eisenia fetida get on real well with simple paper waste and food scraps. You can make a bin with old buckets or tote bins.

This is high level but a good place to start. Just make a pile and learn from it. Buying things to "manage" it only separates you from the process and limits your ability to build intuition for it.

#gardening #homesteading

Ready to start #vermicomposting. Stacking trays arrived today. Arranged with a neighbor who has a worm farm running to get a starter supply of worms in the next day or two. Instructions recommend keeping a light on for first 2-3 days to keep the worms from exploring outside the tray. Will look at initial start in garage before finding a more permanent location outside.

Been doing some research the last few days on #composting options. Most likely doing worm composting indoors; largely due to limited outdoors space, Winters, and a small(?) amount of kitchen scraps to feed the bin.

Anyone have any tips? Especially for #vermicomposting ? There's loads of different bin options and it's getting overwhelming. :blobcatread:

The worms are producing so many castings right now. Around 8 litres from the last harvest and still a lot more ready to go. Big bin is 200 litres and it’s pretty full atm! #Vermiculture #vermicomposting #wormfarm

@juliangonggrijp I will have to look up the Hungry Bin, but your setup looks intriguing. I’ve been using the same vermicomposting bin for 20 years now, essentially 4 rectangular bins with a screened bottom for movement of worms and moisture (bottom is solid and there’s a top). I just fed them today with cut up light cardboard (TP rolls), coffee grounds, and plenty of vegetable peelings that I puréed. #vermicomposting

@lori

The wormy word may be #vermiculture or #vermicomposting.

Ever since I tried #vermicomposting I've wanted to try to pot a plant and keep the worms fed and living inside the pot.
This year I will try it using bottles buried in the dirt to feed the worms and hopefully keep out other critters (like fruit flies).
I hope it works out. #gardening

@nicole2g The #vermicomposting container is a good place for germination. The seeds in the squash guts, the date seeds, and mystery sprouts have grown a bit and then the red wrigglers get them.

On the fourth day of #Christmas, my true love gave to me … a bucket of red wriggler #worms to feed the four calling birds in the yard (in the original song, they were likely colly birds, a reference to European blackbirds).

As I describe in Chapter 12 of Flush, red wrigglers also feature prominently in #vermicomposting, one way in which many composting #toilets are able to convert our organic deposits into a rich soil amendment over time!

#bookstodon #books #science #poop #12DaysOfChristmas

@nicole2g One thing that dissapoints me about a lot of social media #vermicomposting is how difficult they make it. I've been doing it for several years and...it's just not that hard.

Any #vermicomposting types in these parts? I mixed a fresh batch of mulch today for my #UrbanWormBag. Astounded by how much waste it diverts into rich and highly concentrated compost.

Mulch ingredients: shredded cardboard, paper bags and egg cartons, ground eggshells, thrice-filtered coffee grounds (to remove the acidity), dried leaves from the hops I grew this year, water.

Add two parts mulch to one part vegetable waste to the worm bag (not pictured) every three days.