Welcome to the Urban Worm Guide to Biochar! This guide will give you an A-Z overview of biochar, it’s properties, how it’s made, why biochar is so good for soil, and how you can make it at home! What is Biochar? Biochar is a soil amendment made from...
New worm bin owners often expect their worm bin to consist of worms, bedding, food waste, beautiful worm castings, and not much else. Other critters simply weren’t part of the deal. But when you’ve got a worm bin with rich, decomposing food waste and...
This guide will introduce you to the red wiggler to include a deeper on dive on the species and information on breeding, life cycle, and reproduction. We’ll talk about how to maintain red wigglers and why they should be the go-to worm for most composters....
There are some surprising discoveries new vermicomposters will make as they begin their vermicomposting journeys. Maybe it’s learning fun facts about worms having 5 hearts. Maybe it’s discovering that there are over 7000 species of earthworms and that only...
Worms eat organic matter. Anything that has been living eventually becomes worm food. That includes dead plant material, fruits, vegetables, and microbes, both dead and alive. Even you and I would become worm food, given enough time and decomposition by nature's other...
If you have explored taking your vermicomposting beyond the hobby level, you have likely heard the terms “continuous flow through,” or CFT vermicomposting bins. We worm people like our lingo and our terms can be a bit confusing, so this article will introduce...
