log.cheesed.com » red wrigglers http://log.cheesed.com notes and images from the people at biscuit technologies Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:07:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 compost http://log.cheesed.com/2008/05/23/compost/ http://log.cheesed.com/2008/05/23/compost/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 04:56:25 +0000 biscuit http://log.cheesed.com/?p=440

Feeding frenzy: Our red wrigglers are about to receive a biological feast. Full of coffee, orange peels and fava bean discards, the meal promotes cardio and muscular development in the little guys.

]]> http://log.cheesed.com/2008/05/23/compost/feed/ 0 sorting worms http://log.cheesed.com/2008/03/09/sorting-worms/ http://log.cheesed.com/2008/03/09/sorting-worms/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:13:10 +0000 biscuit http://log.cheesed.com/2008/03/09/sorting-worms/ l1004240.jpg

Go Eisenia Fetida – the real Eco Warriors: The magic of worms in the compost. We got tired of waiting for our compost to do something, so we added red wrigglers. Now they get a hearty dose of veggie scraps, coffee grounds, hair, dryer lint (no meat, oil, and citrus in limited quantities) and shreds from the printer. Since we started with a large bin, now we have a lot of worms. The trick is to separate worm from casting. We do it by feeding half the bin for months at a time; the idea is that the worms will migrate to the food half, and then it’s easier to gather castings from the other half. Then we dump a few shovelfuls on a piece of paper and sort: keep one container for the worms, one for the castings, and one for pieces of uncomposted food and sticks to throw away. Our worms seem incredibly lazy, they never seem to migrate, so the sorting is a bit of a chore, but it’s worth it!

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