Worms Around The Home!

This is a close up of the worm bin during the feeding process. I feed my bin ever 2-3 weeks max. Th3erefore I put several points of food in at a time. Sometimes we bury the food in the bedding and castings.

Here see bananas, cucumber, pasta, etc. Note as we generated this organic waste we accumulated it in our home freezer. This helps the food break down, when it thaws, and kills any insect larva, etc on skins of bananas and so on. We freeze the stuff instead of using pesticides to fight the bugs. Using temperature like this and the consideration of non-chemical based methods to control nuisance species is called Integrated Pest Management or IPM. Typically IPM relies upon several types of controls to achieve desired outcomes. Chemical controls are one of the components but the whole point is to formalize the approaches to non-chemical methods. Structural controls, biological controls, mechanical controls, and predatory controls are also viable options. We'll talk more on this later.




This is inside our current bin at home. Notice the hay from my yard. Also a Styrofoam black deli tray. The tray is used to help keep moisture in the bin during the winter. I need to work on moisture regulation.