Apartment Composting: What Are Your Options?

by Steve | Dec 28, 2018 | Composting Resources, Urban Worm Bag, Vermicompost, Worm Bin

You’re an environmentally-conscious apartment dweller who wants to start composting, but you’re not blessed with a large backyard where you can toss your food waste into a huge pile of autumn leaves. Such is the conundrum of the urban composter or anyone...

Moisture in the Worm Bin, Revisited

by Steve | Oct 16, 2018 | 101 Bucket, Expert Bucket, Teacher Bucket, Vermicomposting 101 Series, Worm Bin

Every now and then, I think it’s helpful to reevaluate prior assumptions about the basics of vermicomposting. There’s no one way to do worm composting correctly for all situations, and if there was, nobody has written a book on how to do it just yet. One...

Urban Worm Interview: Dan Lonowski of Michigan SoilWorks

by Steve | Jul 8, 2018 | Continuous Flow Systems, Expert Bucket, Interview Series, Teacher Bucket, Worm Bin

About a year ago, I watched a fascinating time lapse video of the assembly of one of the most attractive continuous flow vermicomposting systems I have ever seen. Some guy named Dan Lonowski of Michigan SoilWorks and Gavin Newton of Detroit-area worm castings producer...

Vermicomposting 101: The #1 Cause of Worm Bin Problems

by Steve | Feb 20, 2018 | 101 Bucket, Teacher Bucket, Vermicomposting 101 Series, Worm Bin

It seems to happen again and again and again. Armed with a bin, some bedding, and a shiny new arsenal of composting worms, eager new vermicomposters, our fellow foot soldiers in the War on Waste try to win the war literally overnight. And they often fail miserably....

Vermicomposting 101: A Really Cheap Way to Start a Worm Bin

by Steve | Oct 18, 2017 | 101 Bucket, Teacher Bucket, Vermicompost, Vermicomposting 101 Series, Vermiculture, Worm Bin

Have you wondered, “How can I start a cheap worm bin?” Well a few weeks back, I asked my e-mail list that I affectionately (and maybe indulgently?) call “Urban Worm Nation” how they’re all doing their vermicomposting. I am constantly...

Harvesting Worm Castings: Break Your Back or Break The Bank?

by Steve | Jul 29, 2017 | 101 Bucket, Teacher Bucket, Vermicompost, Worm Bin, Worm Castings

I got the following question from Dawn F, a fellow worm composter from New York City. She writes: “Can you spend some time on how to harvest worm castings? I bought a small trommel screen and I gotta tell ya, it took half a day. Even the Worm Inn requires...