DIY Worm Farm +WormTea collector

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Short and sweet. Ask All you want I’ve done loads of research but this seems to be the easiest cheapest and best way to keep worms I’ve tried. These tubs are taken out daily all over the world and replaced with fiberglass new tubs. This is garbage to 99% of the world! Be the 1% that gives all your nieces and nephews worm farms for their birthdays instead of toys!

Also just my opinion and I am not worm master know it all but why isn’t there a forum on worm farming and keeping. They’re just as valuable to the soul of your soil as any creature. Use nature and garbage to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Oh YEEAAAHHH BROTHER!!!

Snap into a worm bin.

I'd guess the reason we don't have a vermi-category is that maybe all has been said, more or less, about firing up a worm bin, permie style. Of course not all but enough that it isn't a screaming hot topic anymore.

I just ditched my old bin (an old baby sized sandbox) and created the WURM WAGON, a garden trailer that I can move into the shade in the summer and the sun in the winter. Hoping to get some more production out of those guys by keeping them warmer, or at least alive, in the winter time. It doesn't collect the tea but I never really got much out of my old one really. I have a little compost bubbler right in my garden anyways so I just throw some castings in there when I want a lil' worm influence.

Dan Fish wrote:Oh YEEAAAHHH BROTHER!!!

Snap into a worm bin.

I'd guess the reason we don't have a vermi-category is that maybe all has been said, more or less, about firing up a worm bin, permie style. Of course not all but enough that it isn't a screaming hot topic anymore.

I just ditched my old bin (an old baby sized sandbox) and created the WURM WAGON, a garden trailer that I can move into the shade in the summer and the sun in the winter….

Water that worm wagon over your garden plots let the drips fertilize for you!

how do you keep worms alive in the wintertime in bathtubs.   I had a bathtub set up last year almost like you have just dripped into a bucket instead of a plumbed to a barrel which I like that idea   My worms froze overwinter though    I was thinking of taking them out of the tub overwinter and put into protein tubs in my shed for winter    I also thought about putting straw all around the bathtubs and trying to insulate   I dont wanna lose my worms again so was hoping you have done it successfully

Also how did you plumb in to the barrel

Oh that's a good idea! Thanks Dalton.

So as for the winter. My worms die off every winter but there are always plenty of eggs/cocoons and they start back up late spring. The whole idea of my wagon is to prevent or at least minimalism the impact of the cold season on my worms. As for plumbing I only know one thing, the same thing everyone else knows...

Jim Cowger wrote:how do you keep worms alive in the wintertime in bathtubs.   …

Also how did you plumb in to the barrel

I have a very mild climate they survive every year regardless of what I do. But I usually put a lot of fine sawdust 6” top dressing on top of really fresh greens and food for them. I run a landscaping business so I have access to lots of lawn greens and leaves. My mower has a vaccum blower which makes a nice mix of leaves and grass that gets warm by the very nature of decomposition.
I’d never put this mix in, in the summer. However the heating effect of the composting in the WINTER keeps them moving even under snow.

I make sure the drain is clear l because if the tub holds water and freezes that’s a sure way to kill your tub.

Some free aquarium tubing is how I plumbed it in. Rain barrel had a hole already on it to feed the 1/2” drain tube in. I used a hose clamp to hold it to the tub drain. I spent $0 on this build didn’t use anything that wasn’t someone else’s garbage they paid me to haul away.

Dan Fish wrote:Oh that's a good idea! Thanks Dalton.

So as for the winter. My worms die off every winter but there are always plenty of eggs/cocoons and they start back up late spring. The whole idea of my wagon is to prevent or at least minimalism the impact of the cold season on my worms. As for plumbing I only know one thing, the same thing everyone else knows...

Have you tried using the warmth of green compost to keep them
Alive under a wood shavings sawdust mix? I’ve seen videos of guys who keep their tub against their greenhouse wall too.

Dalton Dycer wrote:

Dan Fish wrote:Oh that's a good idea! Thanks Dalton.

So as for the winter. My worms die off every winter but there are always plenty of eggs/cocoons and they start back up late spring. The whole idea of my wagon is to prevent or at least minimalism the impact of the cold season on my worms. As for plumbing I only know one thing, the same thing everyone else knows...

Have you tried using the warmth of green compost to keep them
Alive under a wood shavings sawdust mix? I’ve seen videos of guys who keep their tub against their greenhouse wall too.

I always try to add worms in all the places there might be composting going on, even underneath small piles of leaves or other mulching material... and I didn't expect a thriving population where I was doing hot composting, but digging underneath the pile there were plenty of them... I suppose on the edge of the hot process, meaning that this sort of place could be the healthiest space for them wherever winters are cold