Learn how to fix & prevent ant infestations in your worm bins so you can turn your food scraps & cardboard boxes into natural organic fertilizer for your garden in the form of worm castings! We'll also start a new worm bin experiment to see if cooked & mashed cranberries turn to worm castings quicker than one of the most notorious slow foods in a worm bin...whole cranberries!

In addition to showing you how I deal with thousands of ants taking up shelter in my worm bin, I'll also show you how this Outdoor Worm bin did with the last feeding 42 days ago as I harvest about 7 pounds of castings & release about 200 worms back into the worm bin after the harvest sifting.

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!!!

Below are some of the items I use for vermicomposting & my channel's videos. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you if you use these links. Thank you for supporting this channel!

Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5Tray Worm Compost Bin https://amzn.to/3Xs1eGe
Urban Worm Bag V2 https://amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots https://amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote https://amzn.to/3eKDLhO

Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3Tray Version https://amzn.to/3AHnjqK
Worm Factory 360 5Tray Version https://amzn.to/3tYfWY4
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
Wrigglebrew Worm Casting Tea https://amzn.to/46PhV2A
Food Dehydrator https://amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
Mosquito Dunks 6 pack https://amzn.to/3Oe4Sl0 granular https://amzn.to/42KDtM0 or 20 pack https://amzn.to/42Br4Kf
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: https://amzn.to/3HnOQjg
Blue gloves https://amzn.to/3XsBg5n
Spray bottles to mist bedding https://amzn.to/3Fq23rN
Digital handheld Thermometer https://amzn.to/3EWfC2j
Compost Tea Bags https://amzn.to/3fCb5o1
Solar powered light https://amzn.to/3nOucAq
Reusable Keurig Coffee Kcups https://amzn.to/3FNXvt6

Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: https://amzn.to/3S2k184

Cameras & camera equipment I use:
GoPro HERO11 https://amzn.to/3jkRpLa
Flexible Tripod https://amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera https://amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera https://amzn.to/3nqV6hp
iPhone 13 Max Pro https://amzn.to/3nq52aU
Canon EOS Rebel T8i https://amzn.to/3HcBuX6

4 Ocean bracelets I wear
Multiple colors to chose from bracelets https://amzn.to/3HMbHEx

Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage https://amzn.to/3L4FXN2

Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com

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00:00 | Intro & what to look for
00:33 | 7 pound harvest
01:08 | Digging in & leaf update
01:52 | Last feeding recap
02:29 | Mixing dry bedding in
03:07 | Avocado pit
03:28 | Ant infestation & how to deal with ants
04:42 | Why only one glove?
05:24 | Cranberry experiment setup
06:26 | Additional food scraps
06:53 | Amendments
07:41 | Shredder life
08:35 | Worm bin time lapse
09:04 | More bedding & wrap up
09:41 | Audio bloopers