Are we there yet? Day 25

Monday night, one of these nights.... 11:05 PM


Day 25 is upon us and yesterday i made an observation while moving the WormFarm 360 from the dining room to the covered patio deck. It is getting heavy. I haven't really thought too much about everything I've been dumping into it for the last month. I had a sneaking suspicion that 'garbage in' was not going to equal 'garbage out ' (GIGO) Perhaps the worms just keep eating the garbage and said garbage just magically disappears...not so much I've found. The temperature has been in and out of the 90's for the past couple weeks so I've been carrying the system in and out. It is a relatively cool today so they are residing outside again. I checked all the layers this morning and the moisture content feels pretty good- not soggy but not too dry either. It's beginning to look pretty organic, dark and chewy in there, so I expect everything's going as planned, and more importantly everyone in our family unit is happy and it hasn't caused any negative effects in our fragile ecosystem.

I've been promising to talk about the common sense approach to collecting kitchen waste and storing it before you dump it into your WormFarm. I've just been throwing the scraps into a tupperware bowl with a air tight lid and making the dump into the working tray once every couple of days. This way, we're disturbing the worms less and we're controlling the amount of food we put in front of them at one time. This is a good process but can be made even easier with biodegradable bags and a small kitchen waste container. Bio Bags waste bags are the perfect companion for bio-waste kitchen containers, primarily used for the collection of food scraps and other biodegradable waste for home or community composting. The term "superliner" means a normal waste can liner can be both thin and light- meaner cheaper, and still be as strong as a comparable Bio Bags waste bag. Made from cornstarch, these bags help to eliminate regular plastic bags from our environment. When disposed, these bags will biodegrade as naturally as food scraps, leaving no harmful residue. No Polyethylene is used in the production of this product. Bio Bags bags are GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) free, certified for use in organic agriculture.

Apparently, the worms don't mind them either The other thing I like about the bags is they work great in a traditional backyard compost. If you don't compost anything, but just throw away your garbage in white kitchen bags, make them Bio Bags because they won't be sitting in landfills 2000 years from now. They will disappear along with their contents in no time at all. Make so much sense it's a wonder more people aren't using them.... or is it they just don't know about them yet?

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