Worms & Vermiculture - Who here has worms?

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Ethel_Blucifer

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I gotta re-arrange my worm set-up. During Covid, I dug the whole thing out for potting soil to expand the garden and the chickens finished off the worms.

I had an open-to-the-air type set up, which was nice in that I barely had to water it or anything, and it was convenient for dumping dirty chicken bedding into, but not great for winter, when it'd stop working til it warmed up. I had a tarp over the top to keep the hens from digging into it and making it stink, just a tarp over the top. And no bottom.

I'd LIKE something that'd let me catch the run-off, since I've read that that is very good liquid fertilizer. Anybody have any ideas on how to set it up less rednecky than old system?

I've heard about people making their chicken coop floor be basically a big compost bin, where it just composts in place. Which sounds too good to be true...
 
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So I've actually looked into this and a lot of people swear by the deep litter method. From my understanding of it you just gotta stuff the thing really full of litter (we're talking several inches deep here) and rake it around every few weeks. It will start to compost on its own and as an upside you only have to change it every year or two. I'm told this also reduces the smell significantly.
 
I'm very pro-wormiculture. I've run both indoor and outdoor cultures. Great way to get rid of leftover plant matter and coffee grounds and as a bonus, you can sell the excess castings and even the worms to other like minded individuals. Minimal work, low cost and interesting (fun). I'd go into the process here but its actually really easy and there's a lot of info out there. Happy to share knowledge to whomever is interested.
 
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>mfw everyone in the fam is super disgusted at worms
I'd like to have a indoor setup but I might get too much shit for it.
Probably gotta have the slickest look possible to hide the worms idk.
 
We have an area called the busy triangle, the focus is on lepidopterology, apiculture, vermiculture, all commonly call butterflies, bees and worms, tho the butterflies are really moths and we focus only on the caterpillars, but they create a very mystic environment where all manner of butterflies can't resist to visit and the children say they see fairs in that tent,


build you own mobile chicken coop
 
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