Yes, the most popular places to find some pet worms for doing your own worm farm at home is a fishing supply store or local farm, the hardest thing always seems to be keeping them in good enough health conditions to actually survive the trip.

Filling this bait container is enough to get a whole new worm farm started up to show others what vermicomposting can really do.

Even hardy and aggressive worms like eisenia fetida (red wigglers) can just sit around and chill out for a while, this is not a really big problem, but what can happen during transport is they get a little traumatized from the sudden change in routine and that can be too hard on them.

One of the most interesting things about vermicomposting is studying the habits of our slimy brothers of the earth; their survival depends on keeping them as much within the parameters nature preset for them as possible, if they undergo too much stress, even the hardiest will perish in sad and agonizing fates.

Some rules include such conditions as: remaining moist, within a temperature range between 50 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit, avoid too much light, receive enough oxygen (yes they breath oxygen), be kept clear of predators (like chickens and mischievous children), have space to crawl and be fed regularly.

Worms need to be provided with a constant supply of food, such as in the case of red wigglers their weight in organics daily, but they will survive a few days/weeks without food.

Problems can arise if they run out of moist bedding for your worm farm but do not fear, throw in a little shredded cardboard.

You can transfer worms to a larger container with new bedding and plenty of kitchen refuse after being in the worm farm for long periods.

Bait containers can be several sizes, from huge buckets to average sized for worm bin starting kits the size Worm Ranch Worm Farm comes in. Considered a large package at 20 x 14 x 7 and weighing 8 lbs, the complete kit comes with a 4.5 lb bag of worm bedding and a 12 oz bag of worm food (worms not included).

Worms will multiply if you give them a chance, and bait containers like Magic Worm Ranch are a perfect way to share those extra pets that an existing worm bin is capable of producing.

Like to fish? Keep your worms thriving and reproducing in between fishing trips!

If you love your worms, give their offspring to others and promote vermicomposting as an ethical way to reduce the impact of an over aggressive industrial revolution and paving the future of sustainable practices, right at home.

Worm bins get easier and easier to maintain as people come out with new ways to improve comfort and environmental friendliness through recycled materials with more efficient shapes and sizes that do the job with a more ecological tone.

But mostly, it is when people start to really understand what makes vermicomposting so desirable in-the-kitchen that gets them to start up their own worm-bin under the sink.

Those who choose to keep their vermicomposting systems indoors must remember that an excess of fatty, acidic or animal based foods like dairy products, eggs and meats may create a foul odor while worms linger over how much they really need to eat that stuff.

Oh sure, they will eat almost anything, not just kitchen scraps, and they will break it down into some of the cleanest and finest worm castings in the world (their insides are so rugged and well adapted to dealing with bacteria, that they can even destroy dangerous pathogens if need be), but they prefer regular kitchen refuse of plant origin.

In nature for example, worms like anything that just kind of plops down under a tree or is trampled under foot on a field, and as horses and other plant-eaters like cows and deer do leave droppings, they are completely different from the kinds of droppings animal-eating predators like cats and dogs leave.

This doesnt mean worms are strictly veggie loving, they will eat decomposing animal remains and can even adapt to do just that kind of job, especially if survival is on the line, but they just dont eat stuff like that as often in nature as they do veggie remains, so they have personal preferences for non-animal kitchen scraps.

Veggie lovers who strictly avoid animal based foods are usually the first to bring vermicomposting indoors, since their piles rarely (if ever) emit foul odors.

For those looking for an easy to use vermicomposting system, Can-O-Worms for example is one of these kinds of products that blends the latest in modern technology with the latest in eco-friendliness.

Made from 100% recycled plastic, this is the kind of product that could withstand hundreds of years out in the open weather if well kept, ultimately paying off its own ecological footprints as well as cutting down on household CO2 emissions.

This style vermicomposting worm-bin that stacks usually measures the same size as a kitchen trash can, with four different stacking drawers or in this case cans.

Once the first compartment is full, the next is just placed on-top with wet bedding (usually shredded newspaper) and a healthy days worth of kitchen scraps, the worms will migrate to the next bin looking for more food, thereby emptying the lower bin.

They are attracted to the smell of organic materials and can eat their weight in food scraps each day, so they travel up in search of the new food source; red-wigglers are the most aggressive and the most common in vermicomposters today.

With vermicomposters of the stacking style, one of the bins will usually take about a whole seven-day week to fill up with a family of five, so after about three or four weeks, three bins can be emptied into the garden and the top bin goes to the bottom of the stack.

It really is that simple, and the worms will just keep on working, day after day, but please remember to feed them! They are members of the family too, like cats and dogs, and they need to eat every day, especially red wigglers.

Vermicomposting with stacking worm-bins like Can-O-Worms is not only an ecologically correct thing to do, it is a fun thing to do, as the whole family (and even those who visit) will be able to learn about these noblest of noble earth dwellers, transforming waste into black-gold of the garden.

The Worm Chalet is a verticalized worm bin that allows worms to migrate upward from box to box as the lower boxes have reached their capacity, the worms will automatically find their way towards more organic materials.

As long as the level of soil is close enough to the top where they can reach the next level, the worms will just keep going upward, so when they reach the top box, just place it as the bottom box, empty the castings from the bottom and middle boxes into your garden and start the whole process over again.

The average American household usually has between two to five adults which will use an average of 15 to 20 kilos of food scraps a day; making Worm Chalet the ideal vermicomposting unit in small urban areas like apartments.

30.5 inches tall and 19.75 x 19.75 inches square, it readily fits into any kitchen or pantry as if it were an alternative garbage disposal unit, and it doesn’t smell as long as the compost tea is collected daily from the spigot at the bottom and spread into the garden or used as organic pesticide.

Alternatively, some people like to oxygenate their compost tea with an old aquarium air pump, a bucket and some tubing, supercharging it for better results!

This system is expandable and the plastic was made to look like weathered stone, with a passive climate control mechanism that moderates temperature fluctuations through an insulated air core in the triple wall design.

It is important to keep this out of direct sunlight while in use, to allow a more favorable environment and the tapered lid inhibits rainwater from pooling up.

Made from UV stabilized plastic that is durable and long lasting it comes with metal sieve separators, it can be used indoors or outdoors as is convenient, has a one year warranty and ships at 79 pounds.

The Worm Chalet is one more way to improve ecological friendliness, providing a sustainable outlet for organic wastes in the urban home, avoiding unnecessary ecological footprints and helping those that use your kitchen understand what it means to be a steward of Mother Earth on a daily basis.

Red worms like those cultivated are not just for worm composting though, they can also serve as fish bait or reptile food just as easily, as these are alternative uses for their cultivation from other distributors.

Red worms take on manure, paper, household kitchen refuse and pretty much any organic materials that you offer them at a rate of their own weight daily.

Jill offers 1,000 (roughly one pound) of handpicked red worms by mail order, with an assortment of mature breeders, young, extra egg-capsules in two pounds worth of bedding, shipped on Mondays by priority mail (expedited) only or overnight in extreme temperatures (shipping in this case required) and a thee page worm care notes included at a total of four pounds for the whole package.

Your worms may arrive somewhat dehydrated from the shipping, but with a little moisture and liquid food, they should come out of dormancy and perk right up again in no time at all.

This is done by leaving some easily digestible organics like fruit and dinner leftovers in the bottom of some soil and allowing microorganisms to break it down during shipping, the messy goop that results is what your red worms will need to restore themselves to full health upon arrival.

Enough red worms could purify your home of all its organic waste in just seven to fourteen days at a time, leaving you with the best form of soil nurturing additive on the planet; worm castings as a byproduct that is some of the most hygienic processes known to science today.

It is possible to say that there is no other known solution more directed towards environmental stewardship than one that reduces ecological footprints to a minimum while replenishing directly and in abundance, the soil nutrients we deprive nature of when we avoid the food chain through the garbage man.

By allowing red worms into our homes and daily lives, we allow our civilization to take part in Mother Nature once again; as purifiers, that is, as true stewards.

This is a sustainable way to deal with our civilizations organic wastes and one of the most low-tech ways to be environmentally correct with as few ecological footprints as possible.

If you have already been doing vermicomposting or intend to start soon, know that by using red worms to take care of your organic waste, you are replenishing what others have not and becoming a true steward of space station earth.

Worm Factory was designed by Cascade Sales (Home and Garden Experts) to take on some of the undesirable chores that can come with harvesting worm castings, more specifically separating the worms from their castings.

Worm Factory is available in three tray, four tray and five tray models, the more trays the higher the production, but the four tray model is 16 inches wide, 16 inches long and 22 inches high.

By offering a system of migration for the worms that climb from drawer to drawer whenever a given food supply has been exhausted, they leave behind a drawer full of castings that can immediately be spread on the garden with no time consuming removal of hungry worms.

Worm factory automatically separates food scraps from finished compost and houses anywhere between 10,000 to 12,000 worms when in full operation.

A Hand Operated Food Processor/Chopper comes with a 16 page program management guide along with an order for a worm factory, red wiggler worms however must be introduced only after Worm Factory worm bin has been fully assembledand prepared for their habitat.

Worm Factory worm bin is a living cold pile that is sustainable and takes care of anywhere between five to eight pounds of food scraps daily, producing in return a whole drawer full of nutrient rich worm castings once a month.

A Worm Bin can be an excellent way to throw less food down the garbage disposal unit. What is a worm bin exactly? Well the bin itself is basically a box of some kind, usually filled with some kind of moist newspaper scraps, leaves, a little earth and sand, for bedding, red worms, and kitchen scraps. A worm bin, is usually vegetarian, since red worms prefer their veggies. Worm bins can be found under kitchen sinks, near the dog food, or even as a table display next to your son’s pet fish Goldie. The worm bin is more than just a gardener’s tool the worm bin is a way for people to feel good about doing something positive for a world trying to live at peace, amongst itself, and the surrounding environment.

A worm bin is an alternative way to supply wonderfully nutritious worm compost, also known as worm castings, for the garden. It is a way to cope and deal with the constant siege of consumer thinking. But is consumer behavior going to save humankind from itself? Having a worm bin will surely help a person think about that, if they don’t already. One main reason is because a worm bin is a whole other look on life from the one seen by the day to day roughing about of the average urban dweller.

If built from recycled materials, a worm bin will radiate pride and joy from a creation that delves in environmental thinking. When built with small amounts of money the feelings of pride and joy are just as powerful and balance as the inspirational well spring from which such a masterpiece is normally derived. There are so many different kinds of worm bins, they can even be bought brand new, for those who are looking to get right at worm castings through vermicomposting. Gardeners, environmentalists, green living experts, sustainable architects, and even vegetarians, are all enthusiasts of worm bins.

With a multi-layered worm bin, it is possible, to cultivate worm tea. Usually by putting holes in the bottom of the worm bin and collecting the moist drain offs from inside the worm bin. This works by putting a layer of bedding, with moist inkless recycled cardboard or a fluffy layer of moist newspaper scraps on the bottom of the worm bin and making sure the right kinds of foods are being given to the red worms in the correct amount per week. For example, a pound of red worms can go through a pound of rotting non-animal based kitchen food scraps in about a week. Non-animal, because that stuff usually starts to stink and attract unwanted visitors like flies and rats, while keeping those wanted visitors like other environmentally conscious people and curious children not only away from the bin, but sometimes even completely away from the house. So by keeping the foods that red worms like in the worm bin, and no more than they can eat at any one given time, everybody is happy.

Maintenance, can be even easier than taking care of a gold fish. By putting veggie scraps in the worm bin along the edges or corners, in different locations once a week, the red worms have a better time at decomposing the organic material into worm castings, which in the end is the final product that both mother nature and the environmentally conscious are looking to put to use. Mother Nature loves those worm bins. To get at the worm castings, is fun too, just gently place the fully composted castings and their adjacent red worm army onto a tarp along the edges, leaving a battlefield in the center to rally forth upon, project lamps onto the mounds of castings and watch in awe as the fearless troops unite more motivated than a roman legion into the center of the tarp. Whereupon gathered, may be gently placed back into the worm bin for another exiting adventure in composting.

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