Feed the Worms!

We love the three R's - reduce, reuse and recycle.  So much so that when our new kitchen was built I finally got my large double rubbish bin drawers!  The front one is our recycling because we have so much more recycling than rubbish.  I think the key with recycling, composting and worm farming is make it easy for yourself, if its not easy you aren't going to do it!

Under our sink we have our compost container.  Into this goes all food scraps, any paper towels or tissues that have non-toxic substances on them (worms love these!).  When you have a compost container, make sure its not too large - 2L is a great size.  You don't want it sitting around for a week, getting all stinky before you empty it.  We have two of these and after we empty one, we spray it out with the hose and into the dishwasher it goes.  Then out comes the next one use as the other is cleaning.

What we shouldn't put into our compost container is meat, citrus and anything from the onion family, however, my poor worms get it all, as I cant stand the thought of putting food scraps into the rubbish.  And in case you think that food scraps will decompose your rubbish and at the tip, think again.  Rubbish at the tip is so compacted and deprived of oxygen that it takes decades to break down.  The other thing thing that is as bad for the environment are waste disposals, our waste water systems were not meant for munched up food!

I love our Can-o-worms Worm farm but you get all sorts of worm farms off Trademe for a really reasonable price.  Our Earthmaker compost bin is brilliant too, its a continuous cycle 3 stage compost bin, so you are continually making compost and not having to haul the bin over to another site.  For more information check out their websites:

http://www.earthmaker.co.nz/
http://www.wormsrus.co.nz/canoworms.html