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Category: Compost
Wormery Frogs Evicted
Last year, I started to notice an increase in Pacific Tree Frogs in the Wormery. At first, they were cute, but I did notice that my integrated pest management team of spiders and other critters of the worm bin were…
Read MoreContinuous Flow Through Reactor Symbi Style
Continuous Flow Through Reactor is a funny name for a worm bin. It sounds complex, but it’s probably the simplest worm bin design you can have. Basically, it’s a box with a grid at the bottom as shown in the…
Read MoreWorms, Food Scraps, Odor, Flies
There are a lot of different types of worm bins that people use for vermiculture. You can build one or buy one, but they all have similar management techniques that you can employ to reduce odors and annoying flies. This…
Read MoreCompost and Pasture
Cows on pasture seems like a pretty simple system. Cows eat grass and their manure helps feed the soil which helps the grass to grow again. What many ranchers have found is that if you plan the grazing to give…
Read MoreNot So Many Critters of the Worm Bin
When I first started this blog, I made a video called Critters of the Worm Bin. It is a worm’s eye view of all of the different critters you will find in a typical worm bin. Pill bugs, sow bugs,…
Read MoreBalanced Worm Bin
When I started the worm bin, the idea was to process the horse manure we have on site into worm castings and also protein for the fish in the aquaponics system. I experimented with various ways to “herd” the worms…
Read MoreThat’s a lotta larvae!
Walking past a pile of partially composted horse manure, I noticed the pile was moving. Going in for a closer look, I found a heck of a lot of larvae. I wasn’t too sure what they were so I contacted…
Read MoreMoving the Worm Herd
When you decide that worms are good protein for fish food, it can be exciting to look at ways to formulate the food. I figured the best way would be to collect the worms in some manner and dry them…
Read MoreCritters of the Worm Bin
Take a walk with a worm’s eye view of the different critters of the worm bin that inhabit our Continuous Flow Through Reactor, which is a particular style of worm bin.
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