Worm Farm | Red Worm Bin | Worm Composting | Worm Farming

!±8± Worm Farm | Red Worm Bin | Worm Composting | Worm Farming

at The Worm Farm you can buy earthworms, redworms, nightcrawlers and dendras for vermicomposting, worm farms and fishing. In addition to earth worms, red worms, European night crawlers and dendras, The Worm Farm also has organic and natural soil amendments and fertilizers for home gardens, specialty growers and commercial agriculture. Our soil and potting mixes feature 99% pure worm castings (grown on site from our Eisenia Fetida red worms), mixed with a variety of premium compost, soil amendments and fertilizers. In addition to our standard mixes, we will combine your favorite ingredients to create any special mix you desire. At The Worm Farm, we have over 100 bulk soil amendments to choose from. Learn about our specialty coco mixes for rapid root growth, our balanced NPK formulas for optimum plant growth and budding, how to make compost teas and more... visit our web site or call our office for more information. Our products are available year-round for spring gardens, summer gardens, fall gardens and winter garden preparation. Northern California growers find an abundant supply of potting mixes (developed from 2 decades of feedback from our clients), as well as the opportunity to create their own special mix from our list of over 100 specialty organic or natural soil amendments and fertilizers. Know what you want? We will prepare your mix based on the ingredient percentages you prefer. Need help deciding? We will prepare a mix based upon the optimum ingredients and ...

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Kitchen Composters - A Look at Kitchen Composting

!±8± Kitchen Composters - A Look at Kitchen Composting

Composting has been practiced by gardeners for centuries as a great way to not only get rid of garden and yard waste, but it's a very cost effective way to improve and enrich the soil in a garden or even an indoor container. Almost all gardeners value the "black gold" of compost as one of the best additives to the garden soil.

But many gardeners, especially "indoor" gardeners, don't have a place to build and maintain a compost pile of any sort. And the idea of building a traditional compost pile indoors is not really feasible. But it turns out there are some options for making compost indoors. Let's take a look at a couple.

Vermiculture (or How About Them Worms?)

At first blush, the idea of a worm bin or worm farm sounds like the last thing that you would want to have in your home, especially your kitchen. But it turns out that worm composting (the technical term is vermiculture) is one of the cleaner ways to make compost. The worms are contained in a plastic bind, and you can successfully make the compost without ever even seeing or touching the worms.

The bin is built with multiple layers, and you add the worms, and then add the kitchen waste to be composted. One of the advantages of worm composting is that you can add materials that would never do well in a traditional compost bin, like citrus peelings and the like. You let the worms do their magic, and add another layer or bin and the worms move on to the fresh kitchen waste.

Worm castings are among the best forms of compost, and do wonders for the composition of the soil. Take a look a the pictures of a worm bin and you may find that it's better than you think.

Bokashi Composting

One example of a bokashi composter is the Happy Farmer composter. This is an indoor composting technique that has been used for years by the Japanese and Koreans.

Bokashi is a mixture of bran and sawdust which is mixed with microorganisms. The kitchen wastes are put in the composter, and a mixed with the bokashi. After a couple of weeks the mixture can be buried outside, where it will finish off into compost in just a few more weeks. The process is more similar to fermentation than it is a traditional composter, in that it's an anaerobic process (not requiring oxygen) and the finished product has more liquid. In fact many bokashi composters have a spigot that allows you to drain the liquid off separately, and you can use it to fertilize your plants.

Advantages of indoor composters

Both of these approaches have some common advantages:

1) You don't need a lot of waste to start the bin. With a traditional compost pile, you need enough mass to get the pile to heat up. With these indoor composters, the active agents can get to work right away, you don't need to wait for a big pile of waste to get going.

2) You can compost many things that won't work in a traditional compost pile. Don't think of meat or dairy products in a compost pile, but small amounts of these in these kitchen composters can do OK.

3) Compost in a hurry - These active composters can give you compost in four to eight weeks, much faster than a traditional compost pile.

So, if you want to adopt more of a green lifestyle by composting your wastes, but thought that living in an apartment or condo without a yard kept you from doing so, there are options.

Kitchen Composters - A Look at Kitchen Composting

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Worm Factory DS4BT 4-Tray Worm Composter, Black

!±8± Worm Factory DS4BT 4-Tray Worm Composter, Black

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Worm composting is an incredibly efficient way to convert kitchen scraps, junk mail and cardboard into nutrient-rich compost for your garden. Master gardeners agree that compost produced by worms will produce the best results and help your plants thrive. The Worm Factory's unique stackable, multi-tray design makes it the most efficient worm bin composter around. Worms begin eating waste in the lowest tray, and then migrate upward as food sources in that tray are exhausted. By allowing worms to migrate upward, the worms separate themselves from the finished compost that is ready for the garden. Besides the worm castings that are produced through this process, the Worm Factory also produces a second type of compost. As waste is broken down, moisture filters through your Worm Factory, taking nutrient-rich particles with it. This liquid fertilizer, know as leachate is gathered in the special collection tray of the Worm Factory and can easily be drained from the spigot. Simply add a handful of worms and your organic waste to the bottom tray. The worms will start processing the food. Once the bottom tray is filled add another tray. The worms migrate upward to the newest food source leaving the bottom tray full of nutrient rich compost. As waste is broken down, moisture filters through the system taking nutrient-rich particles with it. You can drain organic liquid fertilizer right from the spigot. It's compact square design gives the Worm Factory the smallest footprint of all worm composters. The Worm Factory's tray stacking system allows it to hold the largest capacity of compost in the smallest amount of space, making it the perfect composter for anyone with space limitations. The Worm Factory is simple to operate. When full, each tray weighs only 12.5 pounds making lifting and arranging trays effortless. The included 16-page instruction manual makes setup fast and easy and gives tips on how to best manage your Worm Factory composter year-round.

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