Wood Worm Farms

Worms in the wooden chips + grass clippings pile was for me the biggest composting surprise of the year.
Those piles prove to be an excellent shelter for worms in any season. If they are sufficiently large, they don't completely freeze in winter and don't overheat in summer.
The wood chips are not insulated from the ground. There is no fear that worms will run away: they usually stay close to food. My wood chip piles are pretty big - approximately 5m x 3m x 1.5m hight. Initially they were a mix of wood chips and fresh grass clippings. They staid one year like this, then the worms were added. One more year they multiplied there. Now I simply put some food scrap on top of the pile to lure the worms out.

Actually one could see the wood chip piles as a kind of 'mixed' wooden worm bins, where the compost is mixed with wood, instead being contained in it.

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