Wormery

How to Choose a Wormery

A wormery, sometimes called a worm bin, worm farm, or worm composter, is quite simply just a container that houses worms for use in a worm composting system.  Wormeries are usually kept inside of the home and fed food scraps such as fruit and vegetable leftovers, coffee grounds, tea bags, and egg shells.  In return [...]

Common Problems with a Home Wormery

Three most common home wormery problems and solutions:
My Wormery Smells
Your wormery may smell for a couple of reasons.  Make sure that the material you are adding is all food waste except for meats, dairy products, grains, and especially oily foods.  These types of food wastes are known to create a problem with your worm bin [...]

Getting Started With a Wormery

An Overview of Building Your Own Wormery
Composting with a wormery is an excellent way to recycle the organic waste products of your home and be able to reuse them as an excellent quality natural fertilizer.  By recycling your household organic wastes this way, you will be cutting down on the volume of garbage that makes [...]

Run Your Own Wormery

Benefits of a Wormery
When people find out that I run a wormery under my kitchen sink, they look at me a little funny.  You know that look – like why on earth would you ever want to run a worm farm in your home?  Well, for starters, owning your own wormery is an excellent way [...]

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