KEEPING A WORM BIN 🐛
Sustainable Living + Pet Therapy🐸 ?
Keeping a worm bin, to be exact, a worm composting bin or a
vermicomposter, has been all the rave among followers of zero-waste
living. You can tell how popular it has become by running a search for
"worm bin" on Google or Amazon. A dazzling array of styles, colors, sizes
and not to mention types and material, you are spoilt by the choices
available at a click of a button.
Chancing upon an article of zero-waste blogger
Wasteland Rebel one fine afternoon in my little condo, during
the early days of Covid-19 mandatory stay-home period, was enough to set me on
this journey of no return, a worm keeper. Doesn't it sound like heaven in
the making? Where you turn your kitchen scraps into good smelling,
nutrient rich earth which in-turn produce healthy plants and vegetables?
It is magic to me! After a good search around, comparing prices, reading
reviews and watching a handful of YouTube videos, learning the do's and
don'ts, I finally set eye on this cute little purple chest of drawers.
And after a long wait, the live worms arrived in a tiny box, and the rest
is history.
Don't they smell? I am often asked, no, not only they don't smell bad,
they smell really good, like fresh earth in the wood. Did I say pet therapy
? Yes indeed, the worms are my pets now, I feed them, I think of them
often, when I prep meals, I would lovingly save a carrot top, wash egg
shells to grind into fine powder for their reporductive health, banana
peels are their favorite and so are spent ground coffee and the paper
filter that comes with it. I coined a term "coffee bathing", they like
lying on the coffee filter, a sure way for "worm sighting" other wise they
are pretty shy and prefer hiding.
A fairy tale ending, happily ever after ? The fairy tale continues. I can
swear that worms are the best pets ever, at least for me. I particpated in
a community garden project in spring this year and proudly contributed my
home produced compost, the worm castings, the poop of my beloved pets.
Read Try Composting in your apartment - with a worm bin on Wasteland Rebel🐛
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