http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/07/worm-factory-compact-composting-kits/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:34:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/07/worm-factory-compact-composting-kits/comment-page-1/#comment-124508 julietred Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:57:47 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=23356#comment-124508 I use the worm factory and I love it. I live in a condo and it gives me a chance to compost efficiently in a small urban environment. It took a little while to get the hang of it. Too much food given to the worms and you get smell. My big secret is to have air tight compost scrap jars on the kitchen counter handy to pop scrap into. And the jars are exactly as big as what fits into a blender. I keep a special blender and just plop the scraps into the blender and sort of pre-chew the food for the worms. Then just pour the glop from the blender into the worm bin. Because it's pre-chewed for them they eat it really fast. It speeded everything up so that the amount of scraps we make the amount the worms can eat is equal. The other big tip is to use one of the trays just for gnat/fly prevention. I keep a tray above the worm try full of dried leaves and now I have no gnat/fly troubles anymore. Something about having to navigate through all the leaves makes the flying bugs give up on trying for the compost. I use the worm factory and I love it. I live in a condo and it gives me a chance to compost efficiently in a small urban environment. It took a little while to get the hang of it. Too much food given to the worms and you get smell. My big secret is to have air tight compost scrap jars on the kitchen counter handy to pop scrap into. And the jars are exactly as big as what fits into a blender. I keep a special blender and just plop the scraps into the blender and sort of pre-chew the food for the worms. Then just pour the glop from the blender into the worm bin. Because it’s pre-chewed for them they eat it really fast. It speeded everything up so that the amount of scraps we make the amount the worms can eat is equal. The other big tip is to use one of the trays just for gnat/fly prevention. I keep a tray above the worm try full of dried leaves and now I have no gnat/fly troubles anymore. Something about having to navigate through all the leaves makes the flying bugs give up on trying for the compost.

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