Worm Farming

On the 4th of July we went to a family picnic and came home with worms for a worm farm. I had seen this before but wasn't sure I was ready to take on such a task. When I shared with the family that we normally throw our food waste into the flower beds for composting I was immediately taken outside to see the worm farms.

Inside of current worm farm

After hearing a lot about what I would need to do to have a worm farm I decided I would like to try it. Well, of course if one is interested where would they get the worms? Lucky for me the family had the answer....take some of ours home with you!


I was very hesitant about taking the worms right then since I wasn't prepared for it. With a lot of reassurance that the worms could live in the cup I was given for about a week. The next day I wondered around the house trying to find something to make into a worm farm. E suggested the plastic shoe boxes I had been trying to grow salad in (major failure there...too sandy of dirt).

Current (new) Worm Farm setup

I took the boxes and went to work creating what I had seen at the picnic and putting the worms into their new home. The next day I started reading about worm farming and found out I had setup the new home wrong. I went to work redoing the worm farm and doing it correctly this time. Now we just wait and see if it all goes well...about a month from now I should know how good I'm doing with the worms.