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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

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Worm Farmin' - it's not much but it's honest work (beehaw.org)

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Who is farming worms? What method do you use? What bedding? What do you feed them?

Tell me everything.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'll start.

I run a bathtub worm farm that uses a 50/50 method (feed/harvest one side and viceversa). Bedding is Horse Manure. I feed them kitchen waste. I add crusher dust and biochar to the new bedding after harvesting, approximately 30% biochar to 70% manure. I harvest after about 4 months. I set up the conditions for harvesting by feeding the other side until most of the worms have moved over, and I do not seive worms or cocoons from the harvested castings.

The castings, which I have deemed #vermicharpost, go into my native plant nursery and garden. They also, after harvesting, get added to 50% new char so they can inoculate the new raw char and increase co-composted char output.

Example. Freshly Vermicharpost harvested from worm farm on left, new char in middle, vermicharpost mixed with char on right:

Confusing enough?