3Worm food
Feed your worms unavoidable food waste — mostly fruit and veggie scraps, plus extras like tea, coffee, plate scrapings, and flowers.
Fruit and veggie scraps, crushed eggshells, tea bags, coffee grounds, newspaper, tissues. . These things are okay in small amounts: carbohydrates like rice and bread, cooked food, hair, and dry organic materials such as dry leaves and hay
Animal products (except egg shells) risk making smells and anything that stings your eye will sting a worm. Avoid large amounts of citrus, onion, garlic, chilli and ginger.
Tips
- Chop up food scraps - the smaller the pieces, the faster the worms will eat them. Some people even put their food scraps in the blender for rapid recycling.
- Start out with small amounts of kitchen scraps. Worms can process 1 cup of scraps per 1000 worms per day max.
- Your worm population will double every 2 months so long as you don't add too many scraps too soon. Worms won't breed in acidic putrid sludge.
- Within 6 months your worm farm will be at full speed processing 4L/week with 2 trays, 5L/week if you order an extra tray, and 5L/week if you order 2 extra trays.
