Welcome to Worm Composting!
"It's great for the environment and it's a good life for the worms." |
Composting with worms is safe, clean fun that is good for the environment. It is a great
teaching tool for teachers, home schoolers, camps or any learning environment.
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Worms can be shipped year 'round! Click here for ordering information and prices.
- Worm composting can be done indoors and does not require much space.
- Worms can consume their weight in food everyday!
- Worms can convert household garbage into rich compost.
- Worms will recycle (most) organic kitchen waste (no animal products).
- Worms should not be fed meat or fish, bones, colored ink newsprint.
- Worms can be fed paper towels, vegetables scraps, coffee grounds, tea bags, coffee filters, egg shells (crushed), fruit peels (however, no citrus peels).
- Worms are best kept at 70 degrees fahrenheit, but they can tolerate as low as 40 degrees fahrenheit.
- Worms will create the compost (worm castings) in a few months.
- Worms are hermaphrodites (each consists of three segments: two male and one female).
- Worms join head to tail to fertilize each other’s eggs.
- Worms double in population every 2-3 months.
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