July 1, 2008
· Filed under Wormy News
Wow, June was a busy month! Steph and I were getting settled into our new house in Bolton, Vermont, planting gardens, and trying to get a bit of worm care in at the same time. We’re still in the process of building our permanent worm bins, but the worms have been taking it in stride and continuing to turn all the food waste from Outer Space Cafe into rich, fertile vermicompost.
Since we’re still ramping up our vermicomposting, we had to buy four trailer loads of Intervale compost for our gardens (not sure we’ll ever get big enough to sell compost by the cubic yard). There’s an amazing difference in how fine and completely-decomposed vermicompost is when compared to traditional compost. I’ll post some photos soon, or come check us out at the Burlington South End Farmers Market Wednesday afternoons!
May 21, 2008
· Filed under Wormy News · Tagged photos
Just wanted to post this quick picture I snapped this morning. I added two 4-gallon buckets of food waste in the past couple days, and the red wiggler compost worms are really making quick work of it! Awesome to see how fast they’re converting it to nutrient-rich worm castings (vermicompost)!
May 19, 2008
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The compost worms still aren’t in their permanent home (we close on our house in Bolton on the 30th), but they’re settling nicely into their temporary digs. I gave them their first 5-gallon bucket of food scraps from Outer Space Cafe yesterday, and they’re already hard at work turning them into nutrient-rich worm castings! Eat up, little worms…
As I mentioned last week, the initial shipment wasn’t exactly smooth. The worm farmer I bought them from is kindly sending me an extra 15lbs of worms this week to make up for it. They’ll be joining their red wiggler friends Wednesday or so. Hopefully that’ll give me enough worms to keep up with the 50+ pounds of food waste Outer Space generates each week. It takes a little bit for compost worms to settle in and get down to the business of vermicomposting, but I think I’ll have enough to keep up once these reinforcements arrive.
Less than two weeks until the brand new Burlington South End Farmers Market starts up at 3:30pm on Wednesday, June 4th: http://southendfarmersmarket.wordpress.com . The worms can’t wait for their grand debut! Check out the growing list of vendors (others still coming) at http://southendfarmersmarket.wordpress.com/market-vendors/.
Cheers, Jase
May 15, 2008
· Filed under Wormy News · Tagged post office, shipping
Forty (yes, 40!) pounds of red wiggler compost worms arrived yesterday. It wasn’t exactly a smooth voyage for them, as the boxes they were shipped in partially disentegrated during transit. I got a call from the Post Office indicating that there had been an “incident” with my worms, and that I needed to go collect them from the distribution center. Two hours later I had all the worms safe and sound at their new home, but it certainly wasn’t how I had planned my lunch hour to go!
Over the next couple days I’ll get them set up for real, and start feeding them all the yummy food scraps from Outer Space Cafe here in South Burlington. For now, they’re hanging in a large kiddie pool, getting used to this drizzly Vermont weather!
