Wood Worm Farms

My family produces at least 3 pounds (1.2 kg) of compostable waist weekly.
(I don't count cleenexes and paper towels since I rarely put them
in compost.)
All this goes directly to the 6 tray worm bin mentioned before.
Worms seem to be happy of such an amount.
One tray can hold 2 loads like this including additional bedding material, I add with each load.
This makes 2 weeks per tray. So the last tray will come to the bottom
in 6*2 = 12 weeks.
Actually 8 weeks would be enough for a finished compost, so for minimal
needs I would be satisfied with 4 trays.
I keep the additional two to get better processed compost and "just in case".

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From December 2007 FedEx started to brake my bins.
4 bins came broken and one was lost by them.
For a good side I have to mention that all the items were refunded.
(By FedEx and of course by me)

Now I have changed the currier to Canada Post/USPS.
This was working well, but here is a bad surprise...

All the bins are packed in a hard cardboard boxes and padded with an additional layer of cardboard and wood pieces.

Now I switch to a larger box to have more space for padding.
I hope this will not happen again.

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This is a picture after the move of my bin from the backyard to basement,
from November 2007.

Now it grew to a 6 - tray system and is capable to process all the compatible food scraps from our family.
Here I signed all the usual components I use for worm composting:
Dead leafs, sand, cardboard, peat moss and melted snow or rain water.
Very rarely I add some amount of soil sweetener.

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