start a worm farm

It’s been about 6 months and they’re still alive and kicking – Our household waste has reduced heaps, and mum loves the castings for her graden. Mission complete success.

It’s actually looking really healthy! Most of the food is gone, there’s a few bigger chunks that are still a bit mouldy, so I’ve just kind of airated it and moved them to the bottom. There seemed to be a few vinegar flies the other day so I made sure I put plenty of washed and crushed eggshells on top – we’ll see how that goes.

I’ve overfed them and now it’s all mouldy and smelly …. I will leave them alone for a while and let them eat themselves back into a nice environment.

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).