Kick up your recycling program with your very own worm farm. Stop throwing out you kitchen scraps, instead you could feed them to your very own worms who will in turn turn the scraps into wonderful compost for all your gardening needs. Kids and adults can participate in worm farming together. It can be a family hobby.
The very first benefit you'll receive from worm farming is a little thing called composting where you can convert food and many other wastes into something called compost. Through worm farming you let the worms to munch on waste and as it goes in it comes out. Worm poop is commonly known as castings and that is the goal of worm farming because what you do is collect the castings from your worm farm and use the soil like substance as plant fertilizer.
There are people who have marketed the worm castings because it's an excellent fertilizer Gardeners will be the first to tell you they their vegetables came out better because of the fertilizer they used which came from a worm farmer.
Even the worms are being sold in farms, pet shops, bait dealers, and even online so worm farming can be scaled down enough for ordinary people living in even a small house or apartment That's one of the beauties of worm farming, you won't need much if you want to start if you want to start your own farm.
For a home scale level of worm farming all you will need is a container that preferably is around several inches deep. you'll need to place some damp newspaper leaves or paper board for bedding before you put the worms in, adding in some soil or compost on it is definitely a good idea. The worms are very easy to feed because basically any food scraps would do,, nonetheless, steer clear of placing in meat, poultry, and citrus related fruits in the container. The meat would soon begin to smell which can be annoying especially if your worm farm is inside the house.
Feeding your worms kitchen waste among other things is an effective way of managing your trash because not only is this an effective means of garbage reduction you are also helping the environment. The worms will give you in return a rich hefty serving of castings which you can put on your plants so if you're going to have a worm farm, it would be better to start taking care of plants as well if you don't have any. The enriched soil will go to waste if you just throw it away.
The good thing of using the worm castings or vermicompost is that it leaves the soil intact unlike the chemical fertilizers that you can get on the market now Although the effects of chemical fertilizers aren't immediately noticeable, the longer term effects on the soil are horrifying whereas vermicompost improves the soil.
Building a worm farm is quite an interesting project that helps you turn food waste into rich organic fertilizers. You can start your project at home which with work that can morph into a larger undertaking that is able to provide either living worms and/or vermicompost to a waiting market place.
