Why worm composting?

Worm Composting is a great way to recycle your food scraps and a great skill to teach our youth. It will help us to be less wasteful, to grow our own food and to build a better future for the next generation. Also with the growing concerns of food safety, growing your own food may be the only way to ensure we are eating good clean food that is fresh and free from chemicals.

Worm Composting is easy as worms do the work for you. In other composting systems turning the pile may be required where as in a worm farm they do the work of aerating moving the materials as you add them.

How can I worm compost all of the food waste my family produces?

I recommend building a larger worm farm or bathtub farm, but if you only have a smaller area, then a couple of smaller domestic worm farms could be enough.
Also, a compost bin can be useful as an overflow so you don’t overfeed your worm farm. Please refer to the article below on starting a worm farm for some more tips.

Why is it important for us to process our food scraps and organic matter?

One third of our landfill is made up entirely of our food waste.  Another one third of our waste is organic waste which can also be composted or processsed. By composting at home you are reducing waste and the reducing transportation/processing cost on the environment. According to the EPA 20% of all our methane emissions humans create are from organic waste being piled into landfill in these anaerobic conditions and methane has 21 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide.

Well luckily your worm farm is an aerobic system free from the nasty smell of methane because the worms eat the scraps as they rot.  Also worms do not eat any viable seeds which allow your food crops to begin their cycle in your garden when you use your castings as fertilizer. This is one of the many ways in which worms play a vital role in sustaining life on our planet.

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