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High marks for this excellent video. Super concept & superb execution 👍🏻 Great idea to make each check-in into a short time-lapse clip rather than just having daily snapshots - gives the montage a real kick with all the movement. *So* cool watching all those castings piling up. The consistency & moisture level of everything, as you mentioned, looks so perfect. Keep up the great work guys! :)
Thank you so much AV!! That means a lot coming from the King of Worm Time Lapses!! We really enjoyed filming & adding each time lapse every night absolutely mesmerized by what they attacked next! Autumn saved the day on several occasions as she reminded me we haven't filmed the worm bin just before we were going to sleep!! I would have hated to miss days 4-8!! Thanks so much for the kind words & of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Oh my gosh!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 That was the BEST time lapse EVER!!! Sooooooo many worms!!! Everyone was invited lol 😅yes I noticed day 3 the mould set in too…. That Timelapse really tells the story doesn’t it?! Fast food favourites and slower foods….. didn’t take them long either !!! Well there’s one good thing about this, the faster they eat it, the faster they produce 💩 😅 Amazing Timelapse’s at the end too, amazing to see the bright colours just disappear as more and more worms devoured it all!! Happy weekend you amazing people!! 💓💐🍁🍂🐝🌷
Thank you Anita!! This was by far our favorite video to make!! Each day we added another video and watched it over and over again to see what the new changes were!! We loved seeing how they flocked to their favorites and made all the colors disappear! They really are amazing creatures!! I hope you all are having an amazing restful weekend! Thanks so much for the awesome comment and of course, as always, thanks for your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Thank you Whytedavy!! It was so fun to pick a spot and see what happened to it for 11 days then pick another and watch again!! I appreciate you stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Videos where anyone else goes through old and mushy food, I would click off immediately, but your videos are very ASMR, (hand model?? 😂) and watching the worms eat it…LIKE! 😂 These worms are amazing. I can’t wait to get my bin going.
😀 I love going back through and watching these time lapses each night as we are filming and editing and adding to them to see what they have eaten and focus on a different section each time to see the different food scraps disappear!! Thanks again for your great feedback and support of our channel!!🪱🪱🪱
What a great visual of how Epigeic function and consume compared to Endogeic worms. The "pool tabling" is awesome. I always assumed that they prefer the bacteria, fungi, and especially protazoa under the feeding. It seems that's not happening, at least in this case. Awesomeness brother!! Cheers J&C 🌱🪱👍🤜🤛
Pretty crazy how they just go right on top! Of course I had the lid on and just yanked it off & filmed...so they were kinda below the surface 😀 But you are right, you can definitely tell the difference between Epigeic vs Endogeic earthworm behavior from this video...and how Epiceic worms don't mind being all over each other!! If there is any doubt worms will eat food right away without waiting...this should do away with it!! Of course some food needed to get worked over by the microbes & bin critters before the worm would go for it ie. the apple. Thanks so much for all your observations and insights!! And of course thanks for watching J&C!!🤜🤛🪱🪱🪱
Awesome looking time-lapse. Great feeding Patrick. Nice mix of foods the worms will enjoy. I just asked guys at work to save and bring me in food scraps. 😁🪱🪱
Thank you Rick!! The VermiHut really sets up well for a surface feeding time lapse with it's unique lid. Hopefully you have a freezer at work where you can store all those food scraps your gonna be getting!! Thanks so much for dropping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Big thank you from Autumn!! She really is why this video made it to fruition...I forgot to film so many times until she reminded me before bed we hadn't filmed the days time lapse yet!! It really was fun to watch each day as we made it!! Thanks so much for watching Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
Your videos are absolutely helping me to organise my worm bin better. I was running a very wet bin that got acidic real quick, smelled like rotting food. It was one big sticky orange looking mess to be honest. Even the water in the bottom layer smelled rotten. Surprisingly the worms are still there with loads of eggs. But I set things up different now (I use a three layer tower): 1. Feeding tray (had to add loads of carton bedding to dry things out) 2. Pre harvest tray (had to add loads of carton bedding to dry things out) 3. New Inoculating tray (only cardboard bedding) I'll have to let the first two layers get settled and dry out way more before feeding again. At the moment the two top layers are both more like pre-harvest trays. First I want to give the worms time to digest everything there is, as both layers are about 70% filled with old food, castings and carton bedding. Eventually I'll start feeding the top tray again. I might have to wait a long time. Would love to hear your thoughts on this mate. Thanks
I'm so glad you're finding my videos helpful!! I'll be honest, I think you've come up with a brilliant plan to set your bin up to run like my VermiHut!! I think adding all the dry bedding to the top two trays will go a long way in drying things out and you may find you can feed the top tray again after a few weeks. The inoculating tray method really is the way to go; I love how it captures all the moisture and uses it to get that tray really primed to have the worms work quickly when it is time to be the top feeding tray. I really appreciate you telling us about your bin and how you've come up with a plan to make it run even better. I'm sure there are a lot of folks out there in a similar situation trying to figure out how to get things running more smoothly (& less smelly)! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch our videos!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thanks for your reply! You’re videos are very helpful. It took me a few videos before I understood how and why you rotate the layers of the vermihut, but it makes sense now. The graphics of how to rotate the layers made things a lot clearer 👍🏼 but I am still curious why the inoculating tray speeds up the composting proces once it becomes the new feeding tray. About my bin, thanks for confirming I’m on the right path. I think you’re being a little optimistic with me feeding the bin again in a few weeks time 😅 might have to wait a little longer as I don’t think I have 5000 worms in my tower. Probably closer to 1500. And your worms are so thin! I have some giants in there 🪱 but maybe that’s because my bin has been over fed and wet for the last two years
😃 I've got abut half Indian blue worms which are skinny and half red wigglers so that maybe another reason why they look thiner as well. Maybe I should feed them more carbs!! I think the inoculating trays speed up the process once they get up to the top feeding tray because they have been marinating in microbe rich, airy, food scrap drippings that are primed to accept the influx of worms that climb up when food is added. The worms are able to easily rip apart the soggy shredded cardboard which is like catnip for them with it's high microbial content! I should be releasing this follow up video tomorrow or the next and it is unbelievable how finished everything looks in the tray after just 56 days being on top.
@@Vermicompost mate, wish I could share photos on here. Ever since I switched to your method of running the worm bin, everything is good! Looks good, smells good, big and small worms everywhere, moisture level is about right (bedding and castings feel like fresh forest ground, damp but not wet), loads of eggs, loads of castings. Things settled down in just two weeks time after having a super wet and stinking mess…love it. Will be feeding tomorrow for the first time since the ‘big cleanup’
Now you tell me you're going to replay the time lapse! I went back-and-forth several times before you said you will do replays. Excellent view of a large feeding. Landon and I grow collard greens to use as wraps. We go through several hundred a year. Does your mom watch your videos? I bet she would like to see the time lapse of the worms consuming the food. ~ Sandra
😂🤣😂 Honestly when I was editing, I was thinking I should have said sooner that I was gonna play the time lapses back to back!! Each night when we added another one, Autumn and I would let it play on loop and watch a different section every time to see what they had done with each food group!! That is a great idea, collards grow like crazy down here but I've never tried to grow them. My mom does watch the video and loves to read every comment, so I'm sure we'll get a reaction out of her when she see this...she gets backed up on watching because she likes to watch them in one sitting while also reading the comments😀 Thanks so much for all your support Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
@@NanasWorms Hi Sandra!!! 😉I also watched the time lapses (my favorites) several times before he told us he was going to play them at the end 🤦♀!! I love watching his videos (I think he does an outstanding job) and I do love reading the comments, especially from his 'regular' viewers! Everyone is so positive and encouraging and not to forget - humorous!
I think anyone who has worms as pets has to have a sense of humour! I am also impressed with the supportive and positive vibes from the worm community. Patrick is always there to give encouragement. ~ Sandra
Thank you!! I appreciate your kind words!! Pine shavings will probably take a long time to break down, in fact folks that breed worms to sell as bait Sometimes use wood shavings so the bedding lasts longer. So you can use them, but there are some other good beddings to use it you want worm castings quicker. Great question!! Thanks so much for watching Linda!!🪱🪱🪱
Your videos have helped me so much! I’m in Florida as well so your experiences are so valuable. Thanks! Question, I have a Worm Factory 360 with five trays. I’m at three now with one inoculation tray. Is there any reason I can’t have two or three inoculation trays at the bottom?
Awesome!! Sorry it has taken me so long to answer your questions! I have 4 trays on my VermiHut and rotate them every 60 days, I think 5 would work just fine depending on what your rotation schedule is...but you could leave them on longer or shorter to find the sweet spot for number of days to rotation and have 3 inoculating trays and the normal top feeding tray and the pre harvest tray. Hopefully that all made sense based on some of my rotation videos??!? Thanks again for your kind comments!! And of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I start with I don't own one & I haven't seen one up close. From what I see on their website and this video review ua-cam.com/video/dDIb3XbFaGU/v-deo.html It sounds like it is a great bin for someone/a family that produces a lot of food scrap waste or has access to food scrap waste and bedding. My initial thoughts are I like that it has wheels and it appears to be super sturdy (I saw a 10 year parts warranty, which if honored is great). I do think it looks a little tricky to harvest despite this being a selling point from the manufacturer and the price seems steep, especially if someone is just starting and isn't sure yet if worm farming is a longer term proposition for them. I'm not a big fan of collecting liquid from the bottom of worm bins, I prefer to keep the moisture levels such that they don't leak, so the collecting leachate aspect they boast about is not my cup of tea (the longer leachate sits the faster it becomes anaerobic & putrid/unusable). Of course it can be run without creating liquid. Bottom line, I'm sure if I had a Hungry Bin I would find out how it best worked for me and I would enjoy using it! I hope this helps but again, I do not own one & have not run one, just my impressions from what I see out there. Thanks so much for watching & asking my opinion!!🪱🪱🪱
I have a question. My worms did great staying in the bin until they had eaten everything I put in the bin less than a week later. Then they tried escaping. Should I do more frequent feedings or should I do larger feedings? I also placed a light above them to prevent them from leaving the bin.
Great question! Occasionally in a new bin if the bedding hasn't really been broken down too much by microbes and other bin critters the worms can kinda run out of food until the bedding gets a little more aged and they can eat it. So I think you have correctly identified your issue. You can do either one, feed more frequently or feed a little larger feedings while checking on them at closer intervals to see if it is enough. Eventually you will get past this little issue and never run into it again. This actually happened to me early on with one of my bins when I had recently started it. As long as you don't smell any foul odors and the bedding seem damp (not wet) you are still in great shape...but when in doubt add more bedding. I hope this helps!!! Thanks so much for asking a question I'm sure some other folks have as well!! And of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Great question! I'm actually doing an experiment on it now. Here is the set up and a time lapse of the first two days! ua-cam.com/video/XG9fjPuXcTU/v-deo.html When we freeze the food, the water within it expands, breaking the cell walls of the plant material which helps physically break down the food scraps. This allows the worms and microbes to attack it faster. I typically let it thaw out a little before I put it in my bins, but the worms can sense the temperature so they will move away until it warms up a bit. I just keep a container in my freezer and add food scraps to it as I go, so I'm always ready to feed my bins when they need it! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch & ask a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
Great question! Once a day we set the camera & the lights up, started recording, then whipped off the lid! We recorded for just over a minute, then put the lid back on top until the next day. We sped up each clip between 25 to 40 times depending on which time lapse you are watching within the video. That sudden blast of bright light is why you see them kind of "run for cover" at the beginning of each days time lapse. It was super fun to make and such a surprise each day to see how much they had eaten and what they were focusing their efforts on. Great question!! I had meant to explain how I did it within the video but must have gotten too excited as I was filming!! Thanks so much for the question & thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hello, thanks for the helpful information you have on your channel. I've just started a worm bin and am kicking myself for buying a Worm Cafe (3 tray system with a spigot for leachate) instead of the Urban Worm Bag. I should have done more research! I have a lot of worms falling into the bottom bin for the leachate every day. They don't crawl back up on their own and just stay there until I rescue them. I tried digging everything out and putting down a layer of unshredded cardboard and then putting my bedding (coco coir and shredded paper/cardboard) back on with the worms in it, but I'm STILL finding worms in the bottommost bin. Do you have any solution for this issue, or are tray systems just bad?
I think I can help you out! Check out this video for how I manage my VermiHut: ua-cam.com/video/SfUzjr107Hw/v-deo.html and this one: ua-cam.com/video/6w2S38gq7Vo/v-deo.html With a three tray system you can use one of the trays to put just dry shredded cardboard in up to the top of that tray and make it your lowest tray right above the basin/stand with the spigot. When you are ready to rotate, use that lowest tray which will now be damp with the liquid that drips (full of microbes) to put on top and clean out the one you harvest and ill it to the top with dry shredded cardboard to put on the bottom again. What this does is capture all the liquid so it doesn't drip down to the bottom basin and it gets the bedding prepped and ready to go in that tray for the worms. As long as you rotate every 60 days, you should have a relatively dry basin with little to no worms down below (only put dry bedding in a tray not in the basin). Hopefully I understood your comment correctly and you haven't already tried this! This may work well with your system like it does with my VermiHut worm tower. The only other thing I can think of to try is put cheese cloth tightly over the basin and put the three trays on top of it. Theoretically the worms won't get through the cheese cloth but liquid can...just be sure to put the worm cafe somewhere that won't be bothered by a leak out the sides until you know it works correctly. I hope something I've said in here helps!! I really do love my worm tower!! As for the Urban Worm Bag...I say get it and use both bins!! Thanks so much for watching my videos!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you so so much for your EXTREMELY helpful response! I haven't tried putting a bin of just cardboard yet, I'll do that today! I was thinking about the cheesecloth because I saw it in an Amazon review, but I'll try your idea first. I've just watched the first video you linked which was helpful to see, but the Vermihut bins seem to be a lot shallower than the Worm Cafe bins. Should I be filling up my feeding bin completely to the top? I recently packed it full of cardboard to try and stop the worms from dropping to the spigot basin---would you recommend just waiting to let the worms eat through the bedding, or would it be wise to take some of it and put it underneath the feeding tray as an "old inoculating tray" of sorts? Thank you again, I've subscribed for more of your content!
I'm so glad you found it helpful!! If you want I think you could take some of the extra bedding you put in that top feeding tray and combine it with straight dry shredded cardboard and fill another tray which you can put as the bottom most tray (inoculating tray). For your top feeding tray, I would add bedding and food to every feeding until you get to the top of the tray, then add the bottom inoculating tray to the top to make that the new top feeding tray as you take out the middle tray to harvest and refill with shredded cardboard to become the new bottom inoculating tray. You will find that even though you fill a tray to the top with dry bedding, it will eventually shrink down with the moisture that moves into it. Hopefully all that makes sense...sometimes it's easier to show on the videos with diagrams😀
@@Vermicompost It makes sense, you are a great teacher. I tried the other day to get some of the extra bedding out, but it was already really damp and full of worms, so I decided it would be best to leave it as is. No worms in the dry cardboard innoculating bin down below, and definitely no more worms in the draining bin! I'm very happy with this fix, thank you so very much!
Hei. I have worms in my containers where I grow vegetables despite using tarp under them. I don't want worms in them. Do you have any advice on how to repell them naturally to make them keep away from there?
Worms are nature's recyclers...most folks actually try to encourage earthworms as they take dead plant & animal matter and recycle the nutrients into a form that plants can readily use. Epigeic (comport worms) and endogeic earthworms (typical garden worms) do not eat living plant matter so at worst they will not harm your plants. But if you don't want them you could try to bait them out by putting food scraps just under the soil layer at the very edge of your garden bed and continue to check it every two days to remove any worms (of course other critters may find the food if you don't bury it a few inches deep). Keep doing this until you stop seeing worms, but after a little while, more worms will be back...The repopulate pretty quickly!! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you for the answer. Yes, I know that worms are very good in the garden but these are small containers and pots. Some of them may be moved indoors when it gets cooler outside and there are also other reasons why I don't worms in them. That's why I placed them on tarp, not directly on soil but the worms got there anyway. Do you know of any scents or other things that they don't like so they would avoid that area?
Absolutely, many reasons for not wanting worms in your garden material…but I don’t know of any natural way to eradicate them where they won’t come back if at anytime the pots are outside touching soil. Worms will always be attracted to dead or decaying formerly living material no matter the smell…eventually the microbes will break that natural chemical down and worms will be back. So the only thing I personally can think of is continually bating them out and not letting the pots touch soil or be on the ground where the worms can find it (they will easily crawl on a tarp in the moist morning dew.) Sorry about that, perhaps there is a way that I am not aware of.
Absolutely! They will compost all your food scraps, but all most everyone just feeds them plant based food scraps...Mine eat all my cardboard boxes, fruit, veggie and dried pantry item food scraps and turn it into wonderful fertilizer for my garden!! Here is a video to show you how to get started: ua-cam.com/video/1IRP-Nu6_90/v-deo.html Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
I started looking to vermicomposting to learn how to make aerated worm tea to sell as a fertilizer in my city (Miami), but then I learned that worm tea really only has living beneficial microbiomes in it for 24 to 48 hours after it's made. I don't think a meaningful amount of people would buy a meaningful amount of my liquid fertilizier if it's literally only useful for 24 to 48 hours. The thing is: my main interest is hydroponics actually. I am looking to sell stuff like fertilizer just to offset the costs related to hydroponics (electricity, hardware), do you think it would still be worth it for me to get into vermicomposting to make another product I could sell to people locally that isn't worm tea?
That is great you are into hydroponics!! I'm not sure I'm the best person to give advice on selling vermicompost products as I do not sell worms, vermicompost or worm casting tea. As with any business it is important to start small, see what the market is with your product before you spend too much money on overhead and supplies, so you may want to visit some farmers markets and see if there is an interest in worms, vermicompost or worm casting tea..or even little totes that you prep with holes, screen, bedding an 200 worms ready to sell as a starter worm bin. There are folks that are successful and folks that go back to making it a hobby. Checkout @MemesWormsLLC @TheGardenAndWormLady and @northeastworms They each run a worm business and describe the pros and cons in their videos. Good luck to you...if there is a will there is a way!!! Thanks so much for watching!!
I don’t sell any worms or vermicompost so I don’t make any money from selling products but as an Amazon affiliate I earn a small commission when folks use my links to purchase things on Amazon without any extra cost to them. I also make a little money from UA-cam which I reinvest back into the channel to try different bins and improve my videos. So in a way the worms earn me some money😀 Thanks so much for the question & thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hello, My Dear, from Windermere, an hour to the east of you ❤ Your Mom is such a Sweetheart 👍 I think you should coax your Mom into raising worms 🪱 ❤🪱❤️🪱 Great time-lapse ❤Peggy❤
She is sooooo close to starting a worm bin...but then where am I gonna get all my extra food scraps??!? She is a sweetheart for thinking of me and my worms...or grand-worms as she calls them!! My dad has a garden, but I think she is the boss of it😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for stopping by to watch from a stones throw away in Windermere!!🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing My Niece is in her 40's and used to use the expression, "you're not the boss of me" 🤣you made me laugh. If she had some Grand-worms from your herd she could really add to the Garden. ❤️Peggy❤️
@@Vermicompost Hi Peggy from Windermere!! I am tempted to start a bin; but then, like Patrick said, where would he get his extra food scraps? His 'worm family' is growing in leaps and bounds😄 I will live worm motherhood vicariously through Patrick and Autumn and of course, my Grandworms 🤣
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High marks for this excellent video. Super concept & superb execution 👍🏻 Great idea to make each check-in into a short time-lapse clip rather than just having daily snapshots - gives the montage a real kick with all the movement. *So* cool watching all those castings piling up. The consistency & moisture level of everything, as you mentioned, looks so perfect. Keep up the great work guys! :)
Thank you so much AV!! That means a lot coming from the King of Worm Time Lapses!! We really enjoyed filming & adding each time lapse every night absolutely mesmerized by what they attacked next! Autumn saved the day on several occasions as she reminded me we haven't filmed the worm bin just before we were going to sleep!! I would have hated to miss days 4-8!! Thanks so much for the kind words & of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
👍🏻 Exec producer to the rescue!
Always!!😀
Oh my gosh!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 That was the BEST time lapse EVER!!! Sooooooo many worms!!! Everyone was invited lol 😅yes I noticed day 3 the mould set in too…. That Timelapse really tells the story doesn’t it?! Fast food favourites and slower foods….. didn’t take them long either !!! Well there’s one good thing about this, the faster they eat it, the faster they produce 💩 😅
Amazing Timelapse’s at the end too, amazing to see the bright colours just disappear as more and more worms devoured it all!! Happy weekend you amazing people!! 💓💐🍁🍂🐝🌷
Thank you Anita!! This was by far our favorite video to make!! Each day we added another video and watched it over and over again to see what the new changes were!! We loved seeing how they flocked to their favorites and made all the colors disappear! They really are amazing creatures!! I hope you all are having an amazing restful weekend! Thanks so much for the awesome comment and of course, as always, thanks for your support!!🪱🪱🪱
One of the most amazing vermicomposting videos I’ve seen thanks to the time lapse. And of course your communication skills.
Thanks Joe!! I really appreciate your feedback and all the support you've shown my channel from the beginning!! Thank you so much for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
I really like how you went back and explained their progress from day to day. It gives us a good idea of what types of food worms prefer.
Thank you Whytedavy!! It was so fun to pick a spot and see what happened to it for 11 days then pick another and watch again!! I appreciate you stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Videos where anyone else goes through old and mushy food, I would click off immediately, but your videos are very ASMR, (hand model?? 😂) and watching the worms eat it…LIKE! 😂 These worms are amazing. I can’t wait to get my bin going.
😀 I love going back through and watching these time lapses each night as we are filming and editing and adding to them to see what they have eaten and focus on a different section each time to see the different food scraps disappear!! Thanks again for your great feedback and support of our channel!!🪱🪱🪱
Time lapse was great!
Thank you!! It was so fun to make and observe them each day! I appreciate you taking the time to watch & comment!!🪱🪱🪱
Really appreciate the work you put in to catch a glimpse of what's going on day by day with that impressive feeding! What a fun bin!
Thank you so much Evelyn!! I really appreciate your support!! It was super fun to film this one!!🪱🪱🪱
What a great visual of how Epigeic function and consume compared to Endogeic worms.
The "pool tabling" is awesome.
I always assumed that they prefer the bacteria, fungi, and especially protazoa under the feeding. It seems that's not happening, at least in this case.
Awesomeness brother!!
Cheers J&C 🌱🪱👍🤜🤛
Pretty crazy how they just go right on top! Of course I had the lid on and just yanked it off & filmed...so they were kinda below the surface 😀 But you are right, you can definitely tell the difference between Epigeic vs Endogeic earthworm behavior from this video...and how Epiceic worms don't mind being all over each other!! If there is any doubt worms will eat food right away without waiting...this should do away with it!! Of course some food needed to get worked over by the microbes & bin critters before the worm would go for it ie. the apple. Thanks so much for all your observations and insights!! And of course thanks for watching J&C!!🤜🤛🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing one of your best videos imo !! Let's gooooo 🤜🤛💪
Thank you!! It was by far the most fun to make!!
@@Vermicompost it came through !!
Thanks brother!!🤜🤛
Awesome looking time-lapse. Great feeding Patrick. Nice mix of foods the worms will enjoy.
I just asked guys at work to save and bring me in food scraps. 😁🪱🪱
Thank you Rick!! The VermiHut really sets up well for a surface feeding time lapse with it's unique lid. Hopefully you have a freezer at work where you can store all those food scraps your gonna be getting!! Thanks so much for dropping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Great video! I love watching time lapse vids of worms totally chowing down ❤
Thank you Jayne!! It was so fun to make and see the progress as they found all the food scraps!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Woh....Patrick...d worms are gonna feast on their colourful salad
Hi Sandy!! I love feeding these colorful summery fruit type feedings this time of year!! Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by & watch!!🪱🪱🪱
That was crazy. Great job Executive producer. Sounded like you guys were really excited with the process. I would be as well.
Big thank you from Autumn!! She really is why this video made it to fruition...I forgot to film so many times until she reminded me before bed we hadn't filmed the days time lapse yet!! It really was fun to watch each day as we made it!! Thanks so much for watching Mikko!!🪱🪱🪱
❤👍 best one yet!! Great time lapse. Thank you!♻️💚✌
Thank you Tory!! I think this was our favorite video to make as well!! Thanks for all your support!!🪱🪱🪱
Very cool video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the great feedback!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Your videos are absolutely helping me to organise my worm bin better. I was running a very wet bin that got acidic real quick, smelled like rotting food. It was one big sticky orange looking mess to be honest. Even the water in the bottom layer smelled rotten. Surprisingly the worms are still there with loads of eggs. But I set things up different now (I use a three layer tower):
1. Feeding tray (had to add loads of carton bedding to dry things out)
2. Pre harvest tray (had to add loads of carton bedding to dry things out)
3. New Inoculating tray (only cardboard bedding)
I'll have to let the first two layers get settled and dry out way more before feeding again. At the moment the two top layers are both more like pre-harvest trays. First I want to give the worms time to digest everything there is, as both layers are about 70% filled with old food, castings and carton bedding. Eventually I'll start feeding the top tray again. I might have to wait a long time.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this mate. Thanks
I'm so glad you're finding my videos helpful!! I'll be honest, I think you've come up with a brilliant plan to set your bin up to run like my VermiHut!! I think adding all the dry bedding to the top two trays will go a long way in drying things out and you may find you can feed the top tray again after a few weeks. The inoculating tray method really is the way to go; I love how it captures all the moisture and uses it to get that tray really primed to have the worms work quickly when it is time to be the top feeding tray. I really appreciate you telling us about your bin and how you've come up with a plan to make it run even better. I'm sure there are a lot of folks out there in a similar situation trying to figure out how to get things running more smoothly (& less smelly)! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch our videos!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thanks for your reply! You’re videos are very helpful. It took me a few videos before I understood how and why you rotate the layers of the vermihut, but it makes sense now. The graphics of how to rotate the layers made things a lot clearer 👍🏼 but I am still curious why the inoculating tray speeds up the composting proces once it becomes the new feeding tray.
About my bin, thanks for confirming I’m on the right path. I think you’re being a little optimistic with me feeding the bin again in a few weeks time 😅 might have to wait a little longer as I don’t think I have 5000 worms in my tower. Probably closer to 1500.
And your worms are so thin! I have some giants in there 🪱 but maybe that’s because my bin has been over fed and wet for the last two years
😃 I've got abut half Indian blue worms which are skinny and half red wigglers so that maybe another reason why they look thiner as well. Maybe I should feed them more carbs!! I think the inoculating trays speed up the process once they get up to the top feeding tray because they have been marinating in microbe rich, airy, food scrap drippings that are primed to accept the influx of worms that climb up when food is added. The worms are able to easily rip apart the soggy shredded cardboard which is like catnip for them with it's high microbial content! I should be releasing this follow up video tomorrow or the next and it is unbelievable how finished everything looks in the tray after just 56 days being on top.
@@Vermicompost mate, wish I could share photos on here. Ever since I switched to your method of running the worm bin, everything is good! Looks good, smells good, big and small worms everywhere, moisture level is about right (bedding and castings feel like fresh forest ground, damp but not wet), loads of eggs, loads of castings. Things settled down in just two weeks time after having a super wet and stinking mess…love it. Will be feeding tomorrow for the first time since the ‘big cleanup’
That is fantastic news!! Thanks so much for the kind words...I'm so happy it has all worked out!!
Now you tell me you're going to replay the time lapse! I went back-and-forth several times before you said you will do replays. Excellent view of a large feeding. Landon and I grow collard greens to use as wraps. We go through several hundred a year. Does your mom watch your videos? I bet she would like to see the time lapse of the worms consuming the food.
~ Sandra
😂🤣😂 Honestly when I was editing, I was thinking I should have said sooner that I was gonna play the time lapses back to back!! Each night when we added another one, Autumn and I would let it play on loop and watch a different section every time to see what they had done with each food group!! That is a great idea, collards grow like crazy down here but I've never tried to grow them. My mom does watch the video and loves to read every comment, so I'm sure we'll get a reaction out of her when she see this...she gets backed up on watching because she likes to watch them in one sitting while also reading the comments😀 Thanks so much for all your support Sandra!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi Mom!!
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@@NanasWorms Hi Sandra!!! 😉I also watched the time lapses (my favorites) several times before he told us he was going to play them at the end 🤦♀!! I love watching his videos (I think he does an outstanding job) and I do love reading the comments, especially from his 'regular' viewers! Everyone is so positive and encouraging and not to forget - humorous!
I think anyone who has worms as pets has to have a sense of humour! I am also impressed with the supportive and positive vibes from the worm community. Patrick is always there to give encouragement.
~ Sandra
Awesome time lapse!
Thank you!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch and let me know you liked it!!🪱🪱🪱
Great before and after. 😎
Thanks AJ!! It was a fun time lapse to make throughout the week!! Thanks for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Great time lapse showing how they went for their favorites! 👍🪱🪱🪱🪱
Thanks Ann!! Very interesting to see what they went for first and what molded and what didn't!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
Great video. 💜
Mahalo!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch & leave a nice comment!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Hi! Thanks! I continue to learn so much from you! Appreciate your videos. Do you think using pine shavings is ok? Will they break them down?
Thank you!! I appreciate your kind words!! Pine shavings will probably take a long time to break down, in fact folks that breed worms to sell as bait Sometimes use wood shavings so the bedding lasts longer. So you can use them, but there are some other good beddings to use it you want worm castings quicker. Great question!! Thanks so much for watching Linda!!🪱🪱🪱
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شكرا جزيلا على المشاهدة!🪱🪱🪱
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Thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed our video!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!🪱🪱🪱
Your videos have helped me so much! I’m in Florida as well so your experiences are so valuable. Thanks! Question, I have a Worm Factory 360 with five trays. I’m at three now with one inoculation tray. Is there any reason I can’t have two or three inoculation trays at the bottom?
Awesome!! Sorry it has taken me so long to answer your questions! I have 4 trays on my VermiHut and rotate them every 60 days, I think 5 would work just fine depending on what your rotation schedule is...but you could leave them on longer or shorter to find the sweet spot for number of days to rotation and have 3 inoculating trays and the normal top feeding tray and the pre harvest tray. Hopefully that all made sense based on some of my rotation videos??!? Thanks again for your kind comments!! And of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Awesome
Thank you!! I'm so glad you liked it!! Thanks for watching Ruth!!🪱🪱🪱
What’s your thoughts on the hungry bin? I haven’t seen too many videos on it,
I start with I don't own one & I haven't seen one up close. From what I see on their website and this video review ua-cam.com/video/dDIb3XbFaGU/v-deo.html It sounds like it is a great bin for someone/a family that produces a lot of food scrap waste or has access to food scrap waste and bedding. My initial thoughts are I like that it has wheels and it appears to be super sturdy (I saw a 10 year parts warranty, which if honored is great). I do think it looks a little tricky to harvest despite this being a selling point from the manufacturer and the price seems steep, especially if someone is just starting and isn't sure yet if worm farming is a longer term proposition for them. I'm not a big fan of collecting liquid from the bottom of worm bins, I prefer to keep the moisture levels such that they don't leak, so the collecting leachate aspect they boast about is not my cup of tea (the longer leachate sits the faster it becomes anaerobic & putrid/unusable). Of course it can be run without creating liquid. Bottom line, I'm sure if I had a Hungry Bin I would find out how it best worked for me and I would enjoy using it! I hope this helps but again, I do not own one & have not run one, just my impressions from what I see out there. Thanks so much for watching & asking my opinion!!🪱🪱🪱
I have a question. My worms did great staying in the bin until they had eaten everything I put in the bin less than a week later. Then they tried escaping. Should I do more frequent feedings or should I do larger feedings?
I also placed a light above them to prevent them from leaving the bin.
Great question! Occasionally in a new bin if the bedding hasn't really been broken down too much by microbes and other bin critters the worms can kinda run out of food until the bedding gets a little more aged and they can eat it. So I think you have correctly identified your issue. You can do either one, feed more frequently or feed a little larger feedings while checking on them at closer intervals to see if it is enough. Eventually you will get past this little issue and never run into it again. This actually happened to me early on with one of my bins when I had recently started it. As long as you don't smell any foul odors and the bedding seem damp (not wet) you are still in great shape...but when in doubt add more bedding. I hope this helps!!! Thanks so much for asking a question I'm sure some other folks have as well!! And of course thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Which is best for feeding frozen or not frozen food?
Great question! I'm actually doing an experiment on it now. Here is the set up and a time lapse of the first two days! ua-cam.com/video/XG9fjPuXcTU/v-deo.html When we freeze the food, the water within it expands, breaking the cell walls of the plant material which helps physically break down the food scraps. This allows the worms and microbes to attack it faster. I typically let it thaw out a little before I put it in my bins, but the worms can sense the temperature so they will move away until it warms up a bit. I just keep a container in my freezer and add food scraps to it as I go, so I'm always ready to feed my bins when they need it! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch & ask a great question!!🪱🪱🪱
Did you just open the bin every day and take a time lapse or did you leave the lid off the entire time?
Great question! Once a day we set the camera & the lights up, started recording, then whipped off the lid! We recorded for just over a minute, then put the lid back on top until the next day. We sped up each clip between 25 to 40 times depending on which time lapse you are watching within the video. That sudden blast of bright light is why you see them kind of "run for cover" at the beginning of each days time lapse. It was super fun to make and such a surprise each day to see how much they had eaten and what they were focusing their efforts on. Great question!! I had meant to explain how I did it within the video but must have gotten too excited as I was filming!! Thanks so much for the question & thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hello, thanks for the helpful information you have on your channel. I've just started a worm bin and am kicking myself for buying a Worm Cafe (3 tray system with a spigot for leachate) instead of the Urban Worm Bag. I should have done more research! I have a lot of worms falling into the bottom bin for the leachate every day. They don't crawl back up on their own and just stay there until I rescue them. I tried digging everything out and putting down a layer of unshredded cardboard and then putting my bedding (coco coir and shredded paper/cardboard) back on with the worms in it, but I'm STILL finding worms in the bottommost bin. Do you have any solution for this issue, or are tray systems just bad?
I think I can help you out! Check out this video for how I manage my VermiHut: ua-cam.com/video/SfUzjr107Hw/v-deo.html and this one: ua-cam.com/video/6w2S38gq7Vo/v-deo.html With a three tray system you can use one of the trays to put just dry shredded cardboard in up to the top of that tray and make it your lowest tray right above the basin/stand with the spigot. When you are ready to rotate, use that lowest tray which will now be damp with the liquid that drips (full of microbes) to put on top and clean out the one you harvest and ill it to the top with dry shredded cardboard to put on the bottom again. What this does is capture all the liquid so it doesn't drip down to the bottom basin and it gets the bedding prepped and ready to go in that tray for the worms. As long as you rotate every 60 days, you should have a relatively dry basin with little to no worms down below (only put dry bedding in a tray not in the basin). Hopefully I understood your comment correctly and you haven't already tried this! This may work well with your system like it does with my VermiHut worm tower. The only other thing I can think of to try is put cheese cloth tightly over the basin and put the three trays on top of it. Theoretically the worms won't get through the cheese cloth but liquid can...just be sure to put the worm cafe somewhere that won't be bothered by a leak out the sides until you know it works correctly. I hope something I've said in here helps!! I really do love my worm tower!! As for the Urban Worm Bag...I say get it and use both bins!! Thanks so much for watching my videos!!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you so so much for your EXTREMELY helpful response! I haven't tried putting a bin of just cardboard yet, I'll do that today! I was thinking about the cheesecloth because I saw it in an Amazon review, but I'll try your idea first. I've just watched the first video you linked which was helpful to see, but the Vermihut bins seem to be a lot shallower than the Worm Cafe bins. Should I be filling up my feeding bin completely to the top? I recently packed it full of cardboard to try and stop the worms from dropping to the spigot basin---would you recommend just waiting to let the worms eat through the bedding, or would it be wise to take some of it and put it underneath the feeding tray as an "old inoculating tray" of sorts? Thank you again, I've subscribed for more of your content!
I'm so glad you found it helpful!! If you want I think you could take some of the extra bedding you put in that top feeding tray and combine it with straight dry shredded cardboard and fill another tray which you can put as the bottom most tray (inoculating tray). For your top feeding tray, I would add bedding and food to every feeding until you get to the top of the tray, then add the bottom inoculating tray to the top to make that the new top feeding tray as you take out the middle tray to harvest and refill with shredded cardboard to become the new bottom inoculating tray. You will find that even though you fill a tray to the top with dry bedding, it will eventually shrink down with the moisture that moves into it. Hopefully all that makes sense...sometimes it's easier to show on the videos with diagrams😀
@@Vermicompost It makes sense, you are a great teacher. I tried the other day to get some of the extra bedding out, but it was already really damp and full of worms, so I decided it would be best to leave it as is. No worms in the dry cardboard innoculating bin down below, and definitely no more worms in the draining bin! I'm very happy with this fix, thank you so very much!
Awesome!! Glad it worked out!! Thanks for the kind words!
Hei. I have worms in my containers where I grow vegetables despite using tarp under them. I don't want worms in them. Do you have any advice on how to repell them naturally to make them keep away from there?
Worms are nature's recyclers...most folks actually try to encourage earthworms as they take dead plant & animal matter and recycle the nutrients into a form that plants can readily use. Epigeic (comport worms) and endogeic earthworms (typical garden worms) do not eat living plant matter so at worst they will not harm your plants. But if you don't want them you could try to bait them out by putting food scraps just under the soil layer at the very edge of your garden bed and continue to check it every two days to remove any worms (of course other critters may find the food if you don't bury it a few inches deep). Keep doing this until you stop seeing worms, but after a little while, more worms will be back...The repopulate pretty quickly!! I hope this helps!! Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost Thank you for the answer. Yes, I know that worms are very good in the garden but these are small containers and pots. Some of them may be moved indoors when it gets cooler outside and there are also other reasons why I don't worms in them. That's why I placed them on tarp, not directly on soil but the worms got there anyway.
Do you know of any scents or other things that they don't like so they would avoid that area?
Absolutely, many reasons for not wanting worms in your garden material…but I don’t know of any natural way to eradicate them where they won’t come back if at anytime the pots are outside touching soil. Worms will always be attracted to dead or decaying formerly living material no matter the smell…eventually the microbes will break that natural chemical down and worms will be back. So the only thing I personally can think of is continually bating them out and not letting the pots touch soil or be on the ground where the worms can find it (they will easily crawl on a tarp in the moist morning dew.) Sorry about that, perhaps there is a way that I am not aware of.
My goodness huge worm ball on the melon
This was so fun to make and check on them every day!! The worm balls were outstanding!! Thanks so much for all you support from early on!!🪱🪱🪱
Can we use earthworms for composting
Absolutely! They will compost all your food scraps, but all most everyone just feeds them plant based food scraps...Mine eat all my cardboard boxes, fruit, veggie and dried pantry item food scraps and turn it into wonderful fertilizer for my garden!! Here is a video to show you how to get started: ua-cam.com/video/1IRP-Nu6_90/v-deo.html Thanks so much for stopping by to watch!!🪱🪱🪱
@@Vermicompost thanks for info, me Asad from Afghanistan
@@asad6497 Thank you for watching from the beautiful country of Afghanistan!!
How many worms were used in this bin ?
It started with 2000 red wigglers but probably has close to 5000 now! Thanks so much for watching!🪱🪱🪱
I started looking to vermicomposting to learn how to make aerated worm tea to sell as a fertilizer in my city (Miami), but then I learned that worm tea really only has living beneficial microbiomes in it for 24 to 48 hours after it's made. I don't think a meaningful amount of people would buy a meaningful amount of my liquid fertilizier if it's literally only useful for 24 to 48 hours.
The thing is: my main interest is hydroponics actually. I am looking to sell stuff like fertilizer just to offset the costs related to hydroponics (electricity, hardware), do you think it would still be worth it for me to get into vermicomposting to make another product I could sell to people locally that isn't worm tea?
That is great you are into hydroponics!! I'm not sure I'm the best person to give advice on selling vermicompost products as I do not sell worms, vermicompost or worm casting tea. As with any business it is important to start small, see what the market is with your product before you spend too much money on overhead and supplies, so you may want to visit some farmers markets and see if there is an interest in worms, vermicompost or worm casting tea..or even little totes that you prep with holes, screen, bedding an 200 worms ready to sell as a starter worm bin. There are folks that are successful and folks that go back to making it a hobby. Checkout @MemesWormsLLC @TheGardenAndWormLady and @northeastworms They each run a worm business and describe the pros and cons in their videos. Good luck to you...if there is a will there is a way!!! Thanks so much for watching!!
Do you make money off your worms and castings?
I don’t sell any worms or vermicompost so I don’t make any money from selling products but as an Amazon affiliate I earn a small commission when folks use my links to purchase things on Amazon without any extra cost to them. I also make a little money from UA-cam which I reinvest back into the channel to try different bins and improve my videos. So in a way the worms earn me some money😀 Thanks so much for the question & thanks for watching!!🪱🪱🪱
Hello, My Dear, from Windermere,
an hour to the east of you ❤
Your Mom is such a Sweetheart 👍
I think you should coax your Mom into raising worms 🪱 ❤🪱❤️🪱
Great time-lapse
❤Peggy❤
She is sooooo close to starting a worm bin...but then where am I gonna get all my extra food scraps??!? She is a sweetheart for thinking of me and my worms...or grand-worms as she calls them!! My dad has a garden, but I think she is the boss of it😂🤣😂 Thanks so much for stopping by to watch from a stones throw away in Windermere!!🪱🪱🪱
@Vermicompost Learn by Doing My Niece is in her 40's and used to use the expression, "you're not the boss of me"
🤣you made me laugh.
If she had some Grand-worms from your herd she could really add to the Garden.
❤️Peggy❤️
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@@Vermicompost Hi Peggy from Windermere!! I am tempted to start a bin; but then, like Patrick said, where would he get his extra food scraps? His 'worm family' is growing in leaps and bounds😄 I will live worm motherhood vicariously through Patrick and Autumn and of course, my Grandworms 🤣
@@mchob6726 Wow Mommy, you're really behind on my videos!!😂🤣😂