Best Way To Rotate, Harvest & Feed A Worm Tower! | Vermicompost Worm Farm

Maximize castings & minimize work with this new way to rotate your worm tower trays! Harvesting also becomes a breeze when you use this method as we turn food scraps & cardboard boxes into rich natural organic fertilizer for your garden in the form of worm castings!!

In this video I go over step by step instructions on how to rotate your worm tower using my method along with showing you what progress to expect in each tray. You'll see how I feed my VermiHut & learn to use the agitation method to quickly harvest your completed worm tower tray with minimal effort on your part. You have to check it out and give it a try!! After this video you'll want to get a worm tower for yourself if you don't already have one!

We took a little longer than usual to harvest since we were away at our son's wedding...Check out the adorable couple's channel here ‪@LaurenandPJsAdventures‬

Epigeic worms or composting worms are fascinating natural composters & fertilizers that are in most homesteaders bag of tricks to make free organic fertilizer & soil amendments as well as fishing bait. If you've ever thought about vermicomposting or composting with worms to make organic fertilizer & natural soil amendments with your plant based kitchen scraps or food waste, this is the channel for you. I have 3 worm composing bins which you can watch from start to finished worm castings on the 3 playlists following each worm bin. If you haven't started yet, get started now and vermicompost with me!🪱🪱🪱 Visit my Channel at    / vermicompostlearnbydoing  

Happy Vermicomposting Everyone!!!🪱🪱🪱

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Worm Bins I use:
Vermihut 5-Tray Worm Compost Bin https://amzn.to/3Xs1eGe
Urban Worm Bag V2 https://amzn.to/3XE9QsT
20 Gallon Fabric Grow Pots https://amzn.to/3EBYhdr
3 gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tote https://amzn.to/3eKDLhO

Other Worm Bins:
Worm Factory 360 3-Tray Version https://amzn.to/3AHnjqK
Worm Factory 360 5-Tray Version https://amzn.to/3tYfWY4
Bus bins https://amzn.to/3fd8AvP

Equipment I use:
12 Sheet Cross Cut Micro Shredder (I use it to shred cardboard) https://amzn.to/3xYZKYu
Magic Bullet Small Blender (to pulverize egg shells) https://amzn.to/3gwEzb4 or https://amzn.to/42SQ4w9 (with extra coffee bean & nut blade)
Indoor Outdoor Wireless Thermometer for worm bin https://amzn.to/3wIdXbO
Additional thermometer sensors 433 MHz https://amzn.to/41juD7v Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Additional thermometer sensors 915MHz https://amzn.to/3WTFgua Please make sure Thermometer & sensor are the same MHz
Food Dehydrator https://amzn.to/3O5Uj2H
Mosquito Dunks 6 pack https://amzn.to/3Oe4Sl0 granular https://amzn.to/42KDtM0 or 20 pack https://amzn.to/42Br4Kf
Kitchen scale to weigh worms & food: https://amzn.to/3HnOQjg
Blue gloves https://amzn.to/3XsBg5n
Spray bottles to mist bedding https://amzn.to/3Fq23rN
Digital handheld Thermometer https://amzn.to/3EWfC2j
Compost Tea Bags https://amzn.to/3fCb5o1
Solar powered light https://amzn.to/3nOucAq
Reusable Keurig Coffee K-cups https://amzn.to/3FNXvt6

Other useful equipment for worm farming:
5 stackable sifter with different sized mesh: https://amzn.to/3S2k184

Cameras & camera equipment I use:
GoPro HERO11 https://amzn.to/3jkRpLa
Flexible Tripod https://amzn.to/3CGTjcF
Insta360 GO 2 camera https://amzn.to/3oxCc80
Insta360 One X2 camera https://amzn.to/3nqV6hp
iPhone 13 Max Pro https://amzn.to/3nq52aU
Canon EOS Rebel T8i https://amzn.to/3HcBuX6

4 Ocean bracelets I wear
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Books on worms & worm farming
Worms Eat My Garbage https://amzn.to/3L4FXN2

Where to buy worms: www.TheGardenAndWormLady.com

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00:00 | Intro & what to look for
00:28 | Top Feeding Tray
00:46 | PreHarvest Tray
01:07 | Old Inoculating Tray
01:32 | New Inoculating Tray
02:40 | Worm Barrier
02:55 | Worm Tower Basin
03:30 | Rebuilding & Rotating Worm Tower
03:50 | Brand new tray added
04:21 | New Inoculating becomes Old Inoculating Tray
05:02 | Top Feeding Tray becomes PreHarvest Tray
05:44 | Old Inoculating Tray becomes Top Feeding Tray
06:30 | Why this method works so well
07:16 | Adding new bedding
07:48 | Feeding the worm tower
08:27 | How much to feed
09:29 | Best way to harvest & separate worms from castings
10:22 | Skimming worm castings off
11:24 | Harvesting results
11:39 | Recap