Category: Red Worm Composting

The natural environment for a worm is happily burrowing through the fertile ground or hungrily digging through a local manure pile. Putting them in a box and then harvesting their castings is not natural. They do adept well to a composting environment if the worm composter follows a few basic rules. The most common reason to call on the worm composting troubleshooting guy is because of odors. If your bin has too much wet green waste it will start to produce nitrogen to speed the breakdown. The nitrogen combines with…

Why have your household garbage carted off to the landfill each week. It is high in valuable nutrients that could be recycled and put back into your yard or garden. Some people keep a small container in the kitchen and place their food scrapes into it as they are generated. Then after each meal they take them out to the garden and bury them. The problem with this is that they can sometimes attract animals that like to dig them up for themselves. One of the easiest ways to dispose…

Vancouver has been on the forefront of composting. They maintain the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden and a composting hotline for answers on composting. The hotline number is 604-736-2250 and is operated by volunteers under the auspices of Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture. The compost garden is located at 2150 Maple Street. It is open April to November, Wed. to Sat. from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. December to March, Fri and Sat. from 9:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. For Compost Worms, Vancouver is the place to be. With “Canada Trust’s…