Wormyculture - Get Worms, Save the Planet

Vermiculture makes me think of vermin, and they're a hard sell.... this has nothing to do with vermin.

Basically you imprison and enslave worms to decompose all of your food waste. Aside from a little verbal abuse, all they need is a constant supply of your food garbage and they will produce for you a humus as rich as aztec gold. You'd think that a vat of worm poop would stink, or that at least the yet-to-be-composted waste would stink but it doesn't...weird I know.

Sometimes you will see them trying to escape up the sides of the prison walls. This is probably a sign that something is wrong. It could be a few things but these are the most common causes of mutanee:
1. They are starving, so add more food. Adding newspaper (usually has unbleached paper and soy based ink) as a backup food supply is great because it will also help to soak up excess moisture...which brings us to our second trigger...
2. Moisture. They are amphibious little critters but finicky sometimes. They like the moisture to be just right. You can just take the lid off for a while (a day, two, three), they will wriggle below the surface and the moisture will evaporate, or add newspaper and turn the compost.

Of course the most important thing here is making your own super-rich fertilizer, even if you don't have a garden and you just throw it on your lawn. But the other most important thing is that you are keeping food waste out of the landfill. Now I don't know if you know how damaging food waste is in a landfill so here is a link if you want to read a little more.

Food is not meant for landfills, in fact food in landfills creates methane gas, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Get Worms, Save the Planet