If you want to have fun while learning the easiest way to compost with red wiggler worms, you’ve come to the right place!
This worm composting guide is a culmination of over 15 years of composting with worms and several semesters running large and enchanting school gardens in California and Texas. It’s great for educators, home gardeners, garden clubs, school gardens and students of all types and ages!
No content is copied from other websites or blogs. This is the real deal.
Composting is a sustainable and eco-friendly way to manage organic waste. Composting with worms, also known as vermicomposting, enables a special species of earthworm, a red wiggler (Eisenia fetida), to eat our garbage and turn it into a soil amendment that is rich in beneficial bacteria, fungi, minerals, and nutrients.
Get all this and more from the guide:
- How to Transform Food Waste into Nutrient-Rich Soil Amendment
- Why Compost? (An easy to remember script or mission statement explaining why we should compost
- FAQs (How Red Wigglers Work and Why Castings are Good)
- 6 Easy Steps to Compost with Worms (Easily keep it going for years)
- Best Foods to Feed Red Wigglers and Materials to Avoid
- Tips for Success (Essentially how our bin never gets stinky or gross)
- Get Fast Results (Methods to speed things up)
- Humor – “If a Red Wiggler Could Talk” (Worm gives us advice)
- 3 Ways to Harvest Castings (A variety of ways to separate castings from worms)
- Tips for Keeping a Small Scale Worm at School (Addresses some challenges in the school environment)
- Myth Busters and Time Savers (Surprising experiences)
- How to Use Worm Castings (Safe to handle and multi-use)
- Anatomy and Reproduction (Covers the basics)
- How Are Castings Formed? (What really goes on inside a red wiggler – you might use this script when the worm model is in play)
- Instructions for Making a Worm Model (It can be done and was a big hit)
- Fascinating Worm Cocoons (Neat facts and a cartoon)
- Hold a Composting Fair at School (Another exciting activity – you decide how big or small the event.)
- Corny Jokes about Composting with Red Wigglers (Lighten things up with fun riddles)
The 8.5″ x 11″ format works great printed and placed in protective sleeves inside a binder for easy reference. 20 informative pages.
Gardeners!
Worm castings can be expensive to buy by the bag. It’s easy to make your own. Maintaining a small-scale worm “farm” takes little time for big payoff. You recycle your scraps, the worms eat, and you have a sustainable soil amendment at your fingertips. You can go on vacation for weeks and not worry about your worm bin!
Add castings to potting soil for additional micronutrients and improved water retention. Sprinkle castings on the surface around plants. Mix castings with water to make “worm tea” and drench the soil around plants.
“Vermicompost” can be used to improve soil fertility and promote plant growth. By recycling our waste back into the soil, we protect the environment from dangerous gases and water pollution caused by garbage decomposing in landfills.
After trying fancy worm farm systems we always go back to the storage tub. So simple and we get more pounds of worm castings than tricky flow-through systems with trays. No need to spend money on fancy worm systems.
Teachers and Educators:
Learn how to make a model of a red wiggler, easily grasp how to set up a worm bin for success. Hold a composting “fair” and customize it for your specific situation.
Worm bins serve many purposes in a learning environment. Benefits extend beyond recycling and composting. Red wigglers and their cocoons can captivate people, calm anxious moods, and support ecology and science lessons.
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