Have you ever thought about having a worm farm?

 If you have, then now is a great time to get started. With so many of us making the decision to grow our own organic food, sources of clean, healthy and organic nutrition for the soil, the foundation of all good food, are more than ever important.
Yes, you can buy organic fertilizer of course, but building the soil up from scratch,with natural organic fertiliser so that it has the structure which is going to reward you with those amazing healthy fruits and vegetables, can only really be done with the help of home-made compost. Its cost effective in these hard times and an organic compost worm farm is the way forward, even with very little or a large area to have one.


It's always better in an organic system to be recycling, and a worm farm will use all the vegetable and fruit waste that your vegetable and fruit growing will produce.  For example, if you make your own apple juice, worms will just adore the left over crushed apples.  Any spoiled, over ripe or damaged fruit or vegetables that you can't use in the kitchen will be happily munched up by your little worm friends.
If you have just a small space, a worm farm is ideal. You can even have a worm farm in a basement or garage, although most people find it more convenient to have a space outside.  Worm farms come in all sizes, from not much bigger than a shoe box to ones which are big enough to deal with the waste from a small town.
The concept is simple. You purchase worms – generally Red Wigglers or European Nightcrawlers, and give them waste matter to eat – vegetables and food waste (not dairy, meat or fat) which might otherwise be thrown away – and generally add in some straw or other material to create a structure.

Wiggly Worm Organic Compost

The worms get on with eating, pooping and breeding, and you collect up the lovely organic matter, rich in nutrients, and use it either direct on the soil, as an element in your own home made compost mix, or you can create worm compost liquid which makes a great foliar feed - a liquid (Leachate) which can be sprayed directly onto the leaves of plants to nourish them.
(As a side benefit, the fishermen in your family will love you more than ever, as will your backyard poultry. Worms make excellent bait, and of course, wonderful food for chickens, ducks and geese. 
If you feel a bit uncertain about worm farming, then find someone locally who has a worm farm, and go and take a look.  You'll find there is little or no smell, that the whole worm farming process is clean, and that the worm farm output is very nice to handle and use.