Step-by-Step Guide to Starting A Worm Farming For Beginners

Creating your worm farm is a good way of recycling waste from your home. This is also a good source of organic fertilizer for your plants, especially if you have vegetables and fruits that are going bad.

Aside from these, worm farms also offer financial opportunities. You can sell the humus or worm castings to organic gardeners or the worms themselves.

Here is a guide to worm farming for beginners.

There are opportunities in worm farming or vermiculture. How do you start your worm farm?

Worm Farming For Beginners Preparations

• Prepare a container made of wood or plastic. The measurements are not that important. If your worm farm is inside a room, ensure no leaks for the water to rush out. Worms are more comfortable in dark places.

So if you use a clear container, you can wrap newspapers around it to make it darker. Also, make sure that you have a location that is far from vibration.

Worms are sensitive to vibrating movements. If you’d instead get a premade bin, here are AMAZON’S BEST WORM BINS.

If you need help building a worm bin, read our blog post on making a worm bin for fishing. Check out the Urban Worm Farm for large-scale operations and equipment.

Building A Worm Bin

• Of course, you would need worms. Use Red Worms or composting worms; you can get them here: UNCLE JIM’S WORM FARM. They also have worm bins and other much-needed supplies.

• For the bedding, you can use newspapers. Shred it, ensure it is moist, and do not wet it. Then add some garden soil and some eggshells. Crush them before putting them inside the container. Put water in the container, enough to make the bedding moist. Too much water inside the container may drown them. So make sure that the moisture is just enough to make them breathe.

When feeding your worms, there are several things you need to consider:

a.) You can feed them fruit and vegetable scraps and leftovers which starch concentration, like pasta and bread.

b.) Avoid feeding your worm’s food with a high acids content, like coffee, oranges, and tea bags. When unavoidable, balance it with eggshells.

c.) When feeding worms with egg shells, ensure it is cooked. If it is from boiled eggs, then it would be okay. But if not, then just put them in a cup of hot water and put it inside the microwave oven where it would cook.

d.) Avoid feeding your worms with poultry and meat products. These kinds of food can create a particular smell that would attract insects to the bed.

e.) Avoid dairy products and chips; they can create a problem by attracting worm eaters and other insects.

We blend our worm’s food so that it’s easier for them to consume & they consume it much faster.

Worm Farming For Beginners Maintenance

• Keep the worms in the room or farm at 40 and 85 degrees F. So, do not let the farm stand in sunlight for too long.

• There will be a time when you will see cocoons with baby worms on your farm. You can add eggshells to the farm since these shells have calcium that helps reproduce red worms.

• Upon noticing that the bed cannot be identified anymore, you must harvest. You can reap the worm; you can also harvest the castings. It is up to you. But you would have to gather. Worms cannot survive in their waste.

• Do not put plastic bags, bottle caps, rubber bands, sponges, aluminum foil, or glass in the farm bin. This would make your worm farm look like a trash can.

• Never let your feline companions use the worm bin for their litter. Ammonia will kill your worms, and the odor is intolerable. Make sure that your worm farm is duly protected against feline abuse.

In Conclusion

Worm farming is a fun and rewarding hobby that helps reduce household waste and provides a steady supply of nutrient-rich compost for your garden. Following the steps outlined in this beginner’s guide, you can start your worm farm and enjoy all the benefits of composting. Starting a worm farm requires patience and consistency, but the results are well worth the effort. Happy worm farming!