Create a vermiposting system - PEA BB animal.sand.vermicompost

Here’s my BB submission

I built a vermiposter for the the PEA Dimensional Lumber Bit Badge

Here are two of the frames and lid



I was originally going to build a frame over a plastic trough. I decided instead to make a worm tea capture system using oil cloth. The trough could go back to it’s original purpose, mixing compost for seed trays, containers and house plants. I had recently learnt to make oil cloth for a PEP Textile Badge. I built the frame from scrap wood and the rest of the pallet wood I had built the lid from. These are the side supports half way through the build.



Here’s the finished frame designed for stability. The first tray is a nice snug fit. The tea falls onto the oil cloth and drains to the front where I can place a bowl.





I covered the wire mesh with newspaper and then sprayed it with water



Next, I added spent compost that is full of dead roots and wet woody material.



I sprinkled the surface with a weeks worth of spent coffee grounds. I already have a worm farm which I built from a plastic tote in my pre permies days. I collected some worms and moved them to their new home.





There first meal was chopped up banana skin, which I partially buried in one corner of the mound.



Here’s the finished farm with lid, worms, compost, food and collection system. It’s in my basement which has an ambient winter temperature of between 14 and 18’C. It’s where my previous worm farm overwintered and thrived.



Here’s a typical bowl of food. It’s chopped up out leaves from sprouts and a cardboard egg box ripped up and soaked in water.



Here’s where I buried the banana 1 week ago - lots of happy worms!

My worm bin is an upcycled broken tub.

Are those compost worms (red wigglers or equivalent) or worms from the garden?  I believe those are two very different kind of worm species.

Why is it full of water in that last picture?  Seems like the worms would die...

Mike Haasl wrote:Are those compost worms (red wigglers or equivalent) or worms from the garden?  I believe those are two very different kind of worm species.

Why is it full of water in that last picture?  Seems like the worms would die...

I bought red rigglers, European earth worms, and a "worm farm" from bob's worm farm last Christmas for my nephews present. Said worm farm was about the size of a shoe box so I split worms with nephews and made my own farm out of that broken tub. Their farm dried out with total worm causalities to Mom's creepy crawly relief. Then I see I can get a BB for a worm farm and decide to referbish mine after the winter.
Water is so all dry material gets damp. The tub is usually flat on ground so I'm sure some bought worms have escaped to the garden, some wild worms may have found their way into this damn cushy location. So they're most likely reds.

Ok, that sounds good.  Then just to clarify, here are the minimum requirements and the required photos.  Could you please resubmit your BB with just those required photos so we can tell what is what?  It's hard to know which pic is which above.  Thanks!

Minimum requirements:
  - it must have a drain and tea collection system

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
  - starting materials
  - bin under construction
  - completed bin
  - worms going in
  - a week or two later with the system in use and food scraps getting consumed

Resubmit
And we wrapped around to the winter prep (Nov) the old worm blanket has gone to the compost gods, more bunny bedding, and tucked in with a new worm blanket.