It's tray rotation & harvest time in my VermiHut worm tower, but when I lift the tray hundreds of worms hang from below...Use the technique in this video to protect the worms & keep them in the trays so they can turn your food scraps & shredded cardboard into natural organic fertilizer in the form of worm castings for your garden!!

In addition to demonstrating how I rotate my worm tower tray when I harvest the worm castings, I check on the last feeding of the old top feeding tray and add a new feeding to the new top feeding tray. I also show you the unique way I harvest my worms in this worm tower using an agitation method encouraging the worms to dive down into the lower trays.

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
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin https://amzn.to/3wIdXbO
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Other useful equipment for worm farming:
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Cameras & camera equipment I use:
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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
00:59 Fluffing bottom inoculation tray
01:36 Checking the basin
02:30 Hanging worms during rotation
03:02 Checking on last feeding
03:52 Mango seed & other leftovers
04:30 Tray timeline
04:59 Adding new top feeding tray
05:43 Hanging worms
05:58 New tray orientation
06:19 Fluffing & new top feeding tray
07:25 Adding bedding & food scraps
08:29 Me & The Executive Producer!!
09:08 Burying feeding zone & harvesting discussion
10:12 Technique for keeping worms safe during tray rotations
10:46 Harvest by agitation
12:12 How the agitation method works
13:50 Cocoon nursery
14:28 Top feeding