Create a mini worm farm to help reduce some of your food waste
Resources:
Ice-cream containers or small buckets with a lid
Drill with small drill bit
Newspaper
Egg carton
Tiger or compost worm
Food scraps (not meat, fish, dairy, bread, onion, garlic, chilli or salty foods)
Water
Instructions:
- Drill air holes in the lid of the container or bucket
- Drill holes in the bottom of one of the containers
- Put the container with the holes inside the the container with out holes. The bottom container will then collect with worm juice in it
- Shred newspaper and egg carton and soak in water, then squeeze out
- Put damp newspaper/egg carton into bottom of container with holes. This is the bedding and needs to be about 3cm thick
- Add some tiger or compost worms (not earth worms) and the bedding that comes with them
- Add a small amount of food
- Put a folded piece of damp newspaper on the top to become the 'blanket'. This will help help keep the waste damp
- Over time slowly increase the amount of food. Ensure the food is not rotting before the worms eat it
- As you feed the worms, ensure you include a small amount of crushed egg shells and shredded newspaper so that the worm farm does not get smelly
- Drain off the liquid that collects in the bottom container regularly
- This liquid, with a little of the vermicast the worms create can be diluted with water until it looks like weak black tea and used as fertiliser
- Worms like their home it damp but not too wet so make sure the farm doesn't dry out