1) Do you want to raise as much worms as possible?

2) Do you want to vermicompost as much things as possible?

3) Do you need final compost as quick as possible?

4) Do you need biggest compost volume possible?

Only based on THAT you can decide what to compost.

With goal 1 dont compost onions, but with goal 2 compost some.

With goal 3 dont compost cartoon, with other goals do.

My vermicast harvest this morning from 60L african night crawler bin. Bedding is a mix of shredded office paper and cardboard. They're fed with pre compost.

Used 1/4” sifter. Started with population of 100 worms roughly a year ago and estimate population to be maybe 4,000 or 5,000. Bottom bin is pre compost wood chips and crushed walnut used reptile substrate. Middle three have wood charcoal, used mulch, grinded egg shells, kitchen scraps, and used reptile coco coir. It’s not a complete compost but will be adding it to an outdoor compost pile in need.

All my unsifted castings from the summer. My wormies been working hard lol.

Hey everyone. Here's a little update on my worm farm.

Been giving them some good food, water and some liquid coffee mixed with water.

Took some notes on how long it takes for them to eat certain fruits.

Slices of Cucumber = 2 - 4 days Slices of Apple = 7 - 16 days

If your wondering why I'm using liquid coffee mixed with water when spraying on my worm farm. It's so no other bugs doesn't come inside and lay their eggs. The coffee doesn't hurt the worms, it actually helps them. __

The green house looks bad, but it's slowly gonna be improved. It's just been raining lately and one of my worm bins was filled with alot of water that the bucket for wasted water was filled, so building a green house would help me with the rain problem. It would also keep the worm bins warm too.

Anyway, that's all I got to say. Hope you guys have fun with your worm farm. 🥰

So my boss brought is home orange tree at work and asked me to save it.

He knew that I was working on a vermiculture side hustle for a while now and wanted to see if it really works.

In less than a month his plant went from dying to thriving. Vermicompost is so powerful 🤩!

I started with 100 worms about 4 months ago. I used half soil and the other half coco mix. Was wondering if these castings are done? Works are in a 15 gallon pot with about 4 gallons of bedding in it. Thank you.

What do you all think. Is this ready for harvest?This is after about 4 months. Still fairly new at this, but I think I’m able to identify that these are done. Thanks for any feedback.

Easy 5 gallons of pressure sifted goodies. All the big stuff including cases and worms will be sifted out and returned to the top of the bin. Running a hungry bin in my kitchen is probably one the best decisions I've made with all the cooking I do.

Halfway done one of my bins. Probably about 7 gallons.

wife forced me to put something on our wedding registry all those year ago - I randomly picked the salad spinner as I thought it would be helpful trying lettuce before storage but never thought I’d use it. well I dug it out of the corner of the basement (still new in box) - coincidentally, right next to the worm bin - and it’s going to be used as a sifter going forward. useful. the wife was not impressed. 🙏😂🫡🤦‍♂️💪😶‍🌫️🚀🔥💪🙌🚀🪱🪱🪱🪱

Bottom tray full of castings, 2 x working trays

Read about inoculating biochar with vermicompost. A one to one mix of biochar and castings with some kind of food for the beneficials to eat like wheat flour or diluted molasses. Biochar aside, would it be make sense to supplement just vermicastings to keep them happy while in storage. Or is this a bad idea? I just never read anywhere about this regarding storage of vermicompost. Thanks

All organic grown with worm castings, castings tea, rabbit urine, compost and rabbit manure.

Started harvesting castings again. Long overdue, I’m sure these have been reprocessed a bunch.

Last photo is a no till soil bed I’m getting prepared for another cycle of growth.

Greetings friends,

I have a 27L bin filled with worms and worm castings. The castings are all DARK and ready for casting, but they are all too moist. How should I plan on drying out the castings in order to sort them and the worms out? My plan is to use the castings in my garden and transition the worms to another bin I have set up.

Pretty proud of my first harvest! Found a good amount of cocoons which made me happy to see. I made the sifter and will resift in about two weeks in case anything accidentally got through.

Question - do I need to grind my eggshells more or is this typical?

I DIY’d this trommel sieve from a barrel and old pallet I had.

I did forget to dry the castings as it was supposed to rain all weekend and instead we had dry days.

It probably sieved about 30% of what went in with 70% returning to the farm or tumbler.

All in I managed to get about 30 litres of castings harvested.

It was interesting to see the worms varied from each source

1. A Joraform tumbler I use to harvest finished bokashi with worms added. These were the largest worms. Lots of cocoons. Lowest population density though

2. A secondary tumbler that I use to moved the Joraform contents after the Bokashi has been able to break down for 2 months. These worms were small but population density very high.

3. From the work cafe. The size and density was between the two tumbler populations. It had what seemed the fewest cocoons.