For years only birds, fishermen and little boys trying to get little girls to scream were interested in worms, after all they squirm, they are slimy and they shy away from the light of day. Over a century ago Charles Darwin wrote about the common red worm and the benefits that they bring to gardeners and how efficient they are at composting. Now as more people are looking for alternatives to chemical fertilizers and municipalities are searching for ways to cope with the mountains of refuse they have to deal with daily, the common red worm is now the answer to several ecological questions.

Worm Composting offers several rewards. Your plants will have an unlimited source of worm castings, a nutrient rich, organic plant food that can be used as a fertilizer, soil additive or as a potting soil. What you feed your worms is waste that you don't have to pay the trash company to haul to a land fill or wash down the garbage disposal to the local sewage treatment plant. And the liquid run off can be tapped as "worm tea" an excellent liquid fertilizer.

The Eisenia foettida, commonly called a Red Worm is ideally suited for Worm Composting. They require little care, reproduce greatly, and best of all they consume half their body weight in kitchen scraps daily and convert it into worm castings. Apple cores, stale bread, eggs and egg shells, coffee filters and grounds, pizza crusts and the box it came in all make a tasty meal for the Red Worm.

The Worm Bin is a convenient low cost method to get started in Worm Composting and at 18" by 18" by 2 foot long it does not take up much space. When managed correctly The Worm Bin does not attract gnats or fruit flies and has no offensive odors. It can be kept in a garage, basement, under the kitchen sink or in an office lunch room. Many are in use in schools to take care of all the bread crusts and banana peels left over from lunch and teaching the next generation the importance of recycling and how easy it is to do. The Worm Bin has a folding top and a spigot for the worm tea and is big enough to compost 10 to 20 pounds of waste per week.

To get started just fill The Worm Bin with bedding, shredded newspaper, leaves, grass clippings, horse manure or straw, whatever is available. Add a crushed egg shell, water down and your ready to add worms. Start with a pound to two, they will double in population every 90 days. After a few days you can start tapping the "worm tea" and in a few months you will start to harvest the worm castings. Sounds easy, it is, the worms do all the work. Comes with complete step by step instructions.

The Worm Bin: * see picture below		$24.00 ea.
Red Worms: The worms that eat your garbage.		$18.00 lb