Update of Jan 18th meeting Tue to build worm compost:

About worms, we could not find some right now. Worms live deep underground and no fishing shop carried them in this time of the year. But, good news is that a friend of mine knows the people in NGO who are promoting worm compost so she can help us contacting with them. Worm compost structure is finished today by Elaine and Michael. Now, just waiting for worms to come in.

Since kitchen of HomeShop was started in mid-Dec 2010, we are collecting food waste which stayed outside for now in a big ceramic bowls. If you live on the land with animals, you can just give left over to pig and leafy vegetables to rabbit and chicken, also make compost by put food scrap under the ground and mixing with soil and old leaves. Not producing so much of food scrap is always better so I tend to not scrape the skin (also lazy) of vegetables. Do not know if worm compost is the best way to deal with food waste in the city, but at least we can easily build material from whatever we find from scrap and shops around the corner. Rococo style castle is welcoming for prince / princess worms to get waste with endless supply, seems very unnatural. That is conflict I have so far but better than dump them into garbage bin with all other material and hid inside of the ground somewhere in country side. So, worms, hope them to arrive soon. We use the finished worm compost to make vegetable from this April.

Here is the link to the instructions we used to make this compost container: “ Worm_bin_bag_for_indoor_vermicomposting” [PDF, 1.7 mb]