Wood Worm Farms

When my co-workers on the farm told me that they found "a lot of those red and wiggly worms" in a compost pile, I was very curious to see it myself. In a big mound mixed of wood chips and decomposed grass clippings there were indeed many worms. Their number suggested that they stay here at least 5-6 months.
The worms appeared to be Eisenia Fetida with characteristic size, color, strips and yellow tails . Those worms are rarely found in the wild in Quebec, but the last winter was very mild. The worms managed to survive and even multiply their numbers. They were looking so much like MY worms, that I suspected some kind of interconnection here. Though it's hardly possible since my closest bin is about 500m from the mound and first worms appeared there in October 2009. It's doubtfully that they managed to crawl 500 meters and get to the mound before winter. Whatever it is, I got a good chance to see how the wild worms will do in a bin.
The bin is a 'classic' 4 tray bin, standard bedding, first feed was coffee grounds to sweeten first hard days far from home.
Let's hope for better...

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