Checking my Urban Worm Bag harvest to see if I can start treating my worm bin like a trash can where I just throw whole food scraps, unprocessed cardboard & paper in the top & get natural organic fertilizer in the form of worm castings out of the bottom for my garden!! We also feed the worm bin a huge banana tree flower & start to increase the feedings.

In this video we go over the basics of running a worm bin & find out how long it takes food scraps to go in at the top & come out as vermicompost from the bottom! I also show you how bananas form from their flowers and why a freeze stops all ripening of the bananas.

Epigeic worms or composting worms are fascinating natural composters & fertilizers that are in most homesteaders bag of tricks to make free organic fertilizer & soil amendments as well as fishing bait. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your plant based kitchen scraps or food waste, this is the channel for you. I have 3 worm composing bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 3 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me! Visit my Channel at    / vermicompostlearnbydoing  

Happy Vermicomposting Everyone!!!

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Worm Bins I use:
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Bus bins https://amzn.to/3fd8AvP

Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) https://amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) https://amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or https://amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin https://amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz https://amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz https://amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
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Food Dehydrator https://amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
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Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: https://amzn.to/3S2k184

Cameras & camera equipment I use:
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Flexible Tripod https://amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera https://amzn.to/3oxCc80
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4 Ocean bracelets I wear
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Books on worms & worm farming
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Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com

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00:00 | Intro & what to look for
01:00 | Harvesting
02:04 | More vermicompost than worm castings
02:39 | Weighing the worm castings/vermicompost
03:00 | Top of the Urban Worm Bag
03:39 | Difference between worm castings & vermicompost
03:55 | Recap of last feedings
04:48 | Digging in
05:15 | Diagnosing the carbon to nitrogen ratio issue
05:43 | New feeding teaser
06:07 | Banana flower feeding
07:27 | Strange way bananas grow
08:01 | Additional new feeding
09:15 | Adding amendments
10:05 | More whole cardboard trash
10:38 | Oops I forgot something!!
11:01 | Plan going forward