Vermiculture and worm farms

Compost worms are easy and fun to manage. They need five basic things: a nice living environment called “bedding”; food (i.e. your organic waste); water; air; and protection from temperature extremes.

They are the best way to compost kitchen wastes because kitchen scraps can be added each day. In contrast, adding small amounts of kitchen scraps to a compost pile in the garden each day disrupts the decomposition process so that the compost is never really done.

Vermicomposting takes less time until the end product is available to use, and less effort because the worms are mixing the waste for you.

Another advantage is that households without a garden can also recycle their waste by using a worm farm. This is basically a box for the worms, which can be located indoors or on a balcony, with various designs to enable convenient removal of the vermicompost while leaving the worms in the box. Hence a free and constant supply of vermicompost for pot plants and container gardens.

If you would like to learn more about worm farms, go to the About Worm Farms section.