Worm Canoe!

Finally got around to making this idea a reality. We found an old canoe that was heading for the dump, and repurposed it as a kind of raised garden bed with three 5 gallon bucket vermicompost systems.

Here’s a video I made showing the worm canoe:  

This project is meant to be a fun and interactive demonstration of soil science, vermiculture, etc. Students can feed their apple cores and other food scraps to the worms in the buckets, and observe them as they digest these food scraps and spread nutrients to the surrounding soil.

I'll definitely make an update as we start to cultivate worms in this new system. Since there are 3 buckets in the canoe, we might be able to do some experimentation, possibly cultivating other detritivores (springtails?) in one of the buckets as well. We overwintered some worms in our climate-controlled aeroponics room, and some of those will be re-homed into the canoe as well as our Worm Tub (a different vermicomposting system in a bathtub, without plants. Checkout some of the videos I made last year if interested.)

This system creates numerous immersive and hands-on educational opportunities, bringing nature back into the lives of kids who are increasingly surrounded by the artificial human world, "giving back what city and suburb have taken away".

Fantastic!

I am currently making what I am calling the Wurm Wagon (but the o will have umlauts, so you know it's metal). It's just an old garden trailer but my idea is to be able to easily haul it out into the sun in the winter and shady areas in the summer. Hopefully to extend my worms production times.  

I really like your bin, how it has growing plants in it. I am now going to do that with my old vermi-bin after I get the wagon setup. It's such an awesome idea.

Würm Wagon. Or Wörm Wagon.

What you don't want is a Wyrm Wagon. It would be very cool, but the Wyrm would keep stealing your gold buttons and eating your sheep. Not convenient for a backyard garden.

Very smart Jay!