Getting Started – Continuous Feeding

Most people over-feed their bins at the start.

With more food than they can eat, the worms die, because the excess food breaks down into excessive harmful goop.

Once a week add two cupped handfuls of chopped fruit and vegetable scraps.

Don't try to make your squirm cope with all your kitchen scraps – the colony isn't big enough - yet.

Don't try to make your squirm cope with radical foods such as acidic (pickles in vinegar) or two pounds of sheep's heart. Stick to basic vegetable peelings, scraps of boiled vegetables (preferably without ketchup or salt) and the like.

Your objective during this phase is to establish a colony of worms, NOT to end the landfill problem overnight.