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They are great for composting, and fun and easy to take care of - worms! Learn all about setting up a worm farm, caring for worms, and creating your own backyard Worm Farm: Great Guide To Running A Worm Farm!

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A major part of household waste is organic and should not be discarded but kept and recycled. Worms will eat just about anything that was once living. That includes: leaves, grass clippings, weeds, all sorts of household food scraps, natural fibre cloth, all sorts of manure (including dog and cat droppings), paper products and even human hair! Worm castings or 'poo' is one of Mother Natures best natural fertilisers. You can not over fertilise or 'burn' your plants with castings, simply spread or water onto garden beds and lawns.

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Buy the facts for only $18.00 and your Worm Farm will be a success like ours.

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It's simple, costs nothing to run and above all, it's not time consuming. Create your own fertilizer for free. Most of the items needed you probably already have lying around the house. You will NOT need an old bath or plastic container.

Our Worm Farm is now over 10 years old and still going strong. Find out all the do's and don'ts and get the facts in simple English with no long scientific names.

Subjects include:

Building a Worm Farm
What types of Worms to Buy, How Many & the Breeding Cycle
Starting Your New Worm Farm
Feeding Your Worms
Harvesting the Castings and Worms
Using Castings in Your Garden
Quick Facts about Composting Worms
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Worm Farm Management

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My worm farm (Alphakids)

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On the Farm (Early Worms Who are You?)

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Worm Farms Blog Posts from Google

Worm Farm: Make A Worm Bin - The Economical Worm Bin Solution: Some very large organic farms have entire hangers dedicated to the composting process. But what if you live in an urban area? Here are a few tips on how you can make a worm bin that will work in any urban or rural indoor situation. ...
» Worm Farm Special just in time for Christmas EARTHWORMS ...: We stock our own brand, the locally manufactured Magic Supreme worm farm, inclusive of 500 worms, which measures 60 x 40 x 65. The trays are 75% recycled plastic from South Africa. The Magic Supreme is arguable one of the largest of the ...
Make Money Selling Red Wigglers & Their Compost: Worm farming does take a lot of patience and time to get things right and moving. You will need to ask yourself if you will be able to sell enough worms and cast to make up for the time you spend in raising them? ...
Worm Farm: Start a Worm Farm!: A worm farm is often used to decompose food scraps or other items and the resulting worm castings or Vermicompost is used to fertilize a garden, grass, or other area. This worm compost is extremely rich in nutrients and therefore ...

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Wonderful, wiggly worms for free: Worm farms and home compost bins are a great way to get rid of organic waste, such as food scraps and garden clippings. Ararat Rural City natural rescources ...
IASCD honors conservation leaders: She also wrote a grant to purchase a worm farm for vermicomposting and uses the castings for fertilizer in the raised garden beds. ...

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Starting Your Own Worm Farm

While recycling is certainly more prevalent these days; we are also consuming a lot more and therefore generating more waste per person (on average) than we were a couple of decades ago.

Something most of us can do to minimize the amount of garbage we send to landfills is to compost our organic waste such as newspapers, vegetable waste and cardboard - even coffee grinds and eggshells. There's a very easy way to do so that has minimal smell, doesn't take up much space, can chew through a heck of a lot of waste quickly and leave you with a very valuable product.

The workers you'll need to assist you are worms and the process is called vermicomposting.

Our worms, collectively known as "Bob II" have been working hard for us for a couple of years now. They require minimal care, are quiet, never go on strike and incredibly cheap to maintain. Even setting up a worm farm isn't terribly expensive; our ready-made farm cost $50 and the initial worms about $15. Since starting a worm farm we've cut down on the amount of waste we'd usually bin by at least 25%. Over a year that translates into hundreds of pounds.

Our worms spend their entire lives eating our trash, stopping only to reproduce. As far as I know, worms don't even "sleep". A pound of worms (around 4,000) can eat half a pound of organic material in 24 hours!

What's left after their digestion, called castings, is one of the best and safest fertilizers around. It's also ph neutral meaning that it's halfway between acidic and alkalinic - just like water. Castings feel and smell like good soil because effectively that's all they are; in fact, it's said that worm castings are 5 times richer in nutrients than good topsoil.

Castings aren't the only valuable product created, a fluid called leachate that seeps through the material the worms digest is also highly prized. Brown in color, it has no odor to speak of,

"Worm tea", another non-smelly popular worm by-product is made by soaking worm castings in water.

So, what can you feed your worms?

* coffee grounds
* paper
* cardboard including egg cartons
* vegetable peelings and waste
* eggshells

The general rule of thumb is if it the waste is plant based, worms can deal with it; with a couple of exceptions; being:

* pineapple - contains an enzyme that will dissolve the worms
* citrus and highly acidic vegetables such as onions (ok in small amounts)
* green grass clippings should be added sparingly as large amounts generate excess heat and produce ammonia which will kill the worms

You can purchase worm farms at most hardware stores or make one yourself. You'll need:

* A plastic tub with a lid
* A pan for leachate runoff
* Spacers to place between the tub and the catchment pan

All you need to do then is to drill a series of small holes in the walls of the tub to allow air to circulate and holes in the bottom to allow for drainage. Don't be too concerned about worms escaping as they don't like the light. If worms are escaping, it means there is something wrong with the farm; either too dry, too damp or too acidic. You never have to worry about your worms overpopulating as they will self-regulate reproduction. The more waste that's available, the more the worms will reproduce; but bear in mind don't "overfeed" in the early stages while your population is getting established.

To start your worm farm off:

* Place a layer of small pebbles in the bottom to assist with drainage
* Add a couple of loose layers of damp newspaper, building it up to a inch or so thick
* Then it's just a case of adding waste as it becomes available.

The worms will then chew their way up through the material leaving their castings behind. When your tub is full and you can fit no more waste in, don't start pushing it down as you'll most likely crush your composting pals. Remove the layer of waste and a few inches of castings as this will contain most of your worms.

With what's left, put it to one side for use on your garden, add the scraps and worms back in and you're all set to go again. If you purchase a large worm farm, you'll find that most have removable panels at the bottom of the sides to allow for easy removal of castings. It's kinder on the worms and less mess for you as well.

For castings and leachate, while you can use them as is without dilution, the recommended mix is one part leachate/castings to 4 parts soil or water.

Other vermicomposting tips.

* Use proper composting worms; garden worms won't be effective
* Never add any sort of animal products to the farm, including dairy
* Waste mix should be kept moist, not too dry or wet.
* A sign of mix that's too wet is a methane or ammonia type odor and worms trying to escape
* Dampen paper and cardboard products before adding
* Keep the farm in a shady place

Worm farming is cheap, easy, fun and beneficial to the environment. Experience the satisfaction of vermicomposting; I highly recommend it!

Michael Bloch is the author and owner of Green Living Tips.com, an online resource powered by renewable energy offering a wide variety of earth friendly tips, green guides, advice and environment related news to help consumers and business to reduce costs, consumption and environmental impact on the planet.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_Bloch

Worm Farming

If you have always wanted to start a worm farm but don't have the essential information on how to get going, then don't worry. Getting started in worm farming is not complex, and certainly not rocket science.

You may have many reasons for wanting to set up a worm farm. For example, you may be interested in the fertilizer rich in nutrients produced by the worms, or if you are considering a constant supply of live bait or live food for exotic pets.

Whatever be the reason, you need to set up a bin. The foremost thing to look upon is the container. To calculate an appropriate size, you need to measure the quantity of waste you are going to require to use for feeding. The depth of the container should be at least 6 to 12 inches. Wooden boxes or a plastic tote is considered to be ideal material as a container.

After deciding the containers dimensions, you should prepare it for use. For use, the holes must be punched or drilled through the top of the container for permitting the air flow. Generally for this, two methods can be applied.

One method is to drill holes in to the bottom of the container to permit sufficient water and other liquids to drain off. Another method is to install a spout at the bottom of the container. When the liquid starts to fill up, the spout is turned on in order to release the fluid. While using the spout, you also need to top raise the shelf a little bit. The raised shelf may be made up of slats having various holes for permitting the liquids to drain in to the container's bottom.

Once the container is ready, check the bedding materials. You can make bedding using shredded or soaked newspapers, dampened leaves and cardboard. Don't use colored pages. And be careful not to drown the worms. You just need to keep the bedding moist, not soaked. No matter what the bedding material is, a small quantity of soil should always be mixed in. The best types of bedding for worms is covered in more detail at http://www.wormfarmworld.com

The container must be placed in an area which ensures optimal conditions. The temperature should be between 72 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The placement of the bin should be in an area having access to rain water.

Once the bin has been constructed and bedding has been added in a perfect location, then add worms to it.

This is the way to start your own worm farm. Gather some information regarding the addition of useful and appropriate worms for your farm. Red worms are supposedly the best for worm farms but its best to research on this before finalizing a decision. Undoubtedly, worm farming is beneficial whether it is done as a hobby or for a profit.

So getting started in worm farming is really simple. You just have to follow the above-mentioned procedure. Once started, you should know how to sustain the quality by regularly maintaining the worm farm. Good luck with your worm farm!

Carl Formby owns and operates http://www.wormfarmworld.com, a website dedicated to information on Worm Farms

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AbbasAbedi AbbasAbedi Jun 7, 2009 @ 7:08 am

Excellent Lens. 5*

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babyleaps babyleaps Mar 23, 2009 @ 10:03 am

Great lens! Few people realize how important worms are to soil health.

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mudspinr mudspinr Sep 26, 2008 @ 4:05 pm

Nice lense with good information. I have actually made a worm box in this style, and you hit all the points. I almost didn't get to the how to information though, because the commercial information is concentrated on the top and I almost dismissed the lense as all commercial stuff. I'm happy I didn't.

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casey_whitford casey_whitford Aug 23, 2008 @ 8:21 pm

I think this worm farm would really go well in combination with my BioPod, as I can add left over compost to worm farm. Very informative lens! I enjoyed it!
Check out my lens, and let me know what you think.

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Danmark Danmark Mar 24, 2008 @ 10:25 am

Excellent lens. I thought that worm farming would be a great obscure subject to try my hand at applying the Squidoo Profit System I, obviously, was wrong. Still I built one at http://www.squidoo.com/worm_farming

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