start a worm farm

Jaxons are loving their new home and getting nice and big :) I can’t start feeding them food until the 18th August so I’m just keeping them cool and moist for the time being. I’m keeping a container of food scrpas in the fridge but the food is starting to mould .. and I’m not sure if I can feed them mouldy stuff because they only eat dead matter .. ? I might pop into the Watershed in Newtown to ask the question … Or google it LOL.

I attended a workshop on composting and worm farming on the weekend – held by our local council. The workshop was fanTAStic. Despite being hung over and a little bit messy:- I managed to remain fascinated the whole two and a half hours and took away a lot of useful information. I in fact also took home a free worm farm courtesy of the council! The presenters were a great, friendly knowledge source and I was very impressed.
I’ll be popping by the harware on the way home tonight to pick up my first thousand worms and a ground up coconut brick thing to give my worms a home! The first thousand worms (or 250G) will be named Jaxon :)

but I really want to do this. If I stay at my job, I want to try this with the kids.

Well I have started my worm farm – pretty easy really. I feel sort of nervous as I don’t want to kill my worms – they seem to be thriving though. The weather here has been quite cold (the damp newspaper on top froze) so I have brought them inside – my partner is tolerating this for the moment (she thinks I am a little crazy).

i used to have a couple thousand worms eating my leftover food and organic waste. i havent had any worms for about a year now. it’s time to get some new ones.