So, I am a worm composter and have been since May of 2008. I enjoy the company of worms. They've complained only once when they were underneath my kitchen sink behind closed doors (yes, I was dumb), and so I've been very conscious about what environment they're in. Currently they reside in my parents' basement on top of a filing cabinet, readily available to display their secret makings. My inner child enjoys watching them stretch and wriggle through the stuff. They don't seem to mind that they're in a bin.
This is what I found in the kitchen trash. Oooh, yes, lots of little goodies. Egg shells, coffee grinds, potato cuttings, tea bags, unusable carrot pieces, and plenty of cuttings from the 40 or so houseplants that keep us forestlike. The paper plate was also in the same bin. Yes, I forgive my family for trying to sneak this stuff to the landfill (maybe I've been watching too much Wa$ted). I'm an avid green/eco/nature dude. I feel tremendous guilt when I take part in the general, careless doings of mainstream society. Then again, as I learned from a sustainability lecture last spring, we're all learning. Eventually we'll get to a point when we're consuming equally or less than can be provided to us. It's rather nice musing about how humanity is now in this movement toward a slower lifestyle.Anyway, worm composting is great. I'd still like to have other composting methods to work with along with this one, just to keep things interesting and to constantly make OCD comparatives between the rates of decomposition, and so that my worm bin won't get overwhelmed.
Look for more random things like these to come up every now and then. I have a smorgasbord of interests. Boredom is the mother of creativity.
I miss my worms so much. =(
ReplyDeleteThey died in the middle of the summer, Scott and I were keeping them in the garage and I think it might have gotten too hot. I went to add some food to the bin and could not find a single worm! Instead I found what looked like little black mites. I didn't notice them at first, but when I looked closely they were covering the entire bin giving the soil the appearance of movement. I dumped the remains of my compost out in the back yard and shuffled through it looking for a single red wiggler, but they were all gone. I guess if I try again I will put a box fan in the garage during the day to keep air circulating and to keep them cool. I feel like a bad person for throwing fruits and veggies in the trashcan.
A second try is very feasible! Definitely look into it, as those landfill-doomed organic materials will be emitting methane. You're not a bad person! Just blackle.com information and how-to from different sources and try it out again. :)
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