Apartment Composting 101: Vermicompost with Barb Finnin

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UPDATE:

We have modified this original design to a shallower, more airy worm bin. Check out our new design here, Cheers! Good Luck!
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Barb Finnin is part of the amazing Freshtopia team. She's a certified master composter- her specialty is Vermicomposting with worms. We were super excited to learn that we could compost in our city apartment with a homemade worm bin even though we don't have a yard. Throwing food scraps away in the garbage is not something either of us enjoys, so having a green alternative has been more than satisfying for our sustainability goals. After 4 weeks, our worms are happy and thriving.

Find out more about Vermicomposting and other forms of composting on Wikipedia. Visit Barb at Freshtopia.net.

Runtime- 9:47

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: March 8, 2008 at 6:24 am
Author: RyanIsHungry

Length: 00:09:48
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Views: 3975

Tags: vermicomposting vermiculture worm compost apartment composting indoor diy barb finnin freshtopia sanfrancisco

Video Comments:
Mechman064 (June 25, 2008 at 11:13 am)
Part of my preparations for peak oil and the looming economic depression has been to make a deck garden here at my condo(see my videos). I used powdered organic fertilizer to get things started but I think my next step is to begin composting. Making a worm bin seems like a very good solution.
mmajkla (May 28, 2008 at 4:02 am)
Nice video and very informative. I will start soon!
Speezerina (May 14, 2008 at 5:16 pm)
This is really great. But how do you harvest the castings?
Thanks for the great how-to. :-)
crock703 (May 6, 2008 at 9:47 am)
Anyone know if there is an easy way to get red worms for free (or the cost of shipping)?
yanghuikwon (April 19, 2008 at 4:26 pm)
Thanks so much for putting this up!
I'm going to start my worm bin in a few days, as soon as midterm exams begin.
I hail from S. Korea.
I'm going to tell all students about this.