Composting with Worms!
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Composting with Worms!
Randi MailRecycling DirectorCity of Cambridge
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Topics of Discussion
Find a good place to store bin Get a bin and worms Prepare bin and bedding Feed your worms Harvest and use the black gold Troubleshooting
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My week’s worth of trash after recycling and composting
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Facts about Red Worms
Why not other worms? What is their sex life? How do they eat, breathe, see?
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Get a bin and prepare it for your worms and find a good place to store
it
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Shred newspaper bedding for your bin
Moisten and wring Moisten and wring out water out water oror spritz spritz with a spray bottlewith a spray bottle
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Fluff damp bedding in bin
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What to
feed your worm
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Store food
scraps
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Spoon in Spoon in food and food and cover upcover up
Create Create burying burying
locationslocations
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Drain Drain “compost “compost tea” and tea” and dilute for dilute for
houseplantshouseplants
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Black gold!Black gold!
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Harvest castings.Harvest castings. Mix with Mix with potting soil. potting soil. You’ve made You’ve made
compost!compost!
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Add new Add new bedding and bedding and start again…start again…
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Too much food Not enough air Too wet Too acidic Stinky foods Wrong food: no meat, dairy
or oily foods
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Avoid the problem…
Cover bin Don’t overfeed Bury food Cut food up Control moisture &
acidity
Fruit Flies
Get rid of them… Vinegar trap Vacuum bin When all else fails,
change bedding
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Who plans on starting? Resources
– www.cambridgema.gov/recycle – www.wormwoman.com – www.wormdigest.com
Wrapping it Up