Fast-Breeder Nursery

Procedure for lightning-fast breeder:
Have a milk sac bag prepared crammed full of dry shredded paper.
Run the day's scraps through a meat mincer, or a blender, with a cup of water. Makes wet slurry.
Place the bag on a composting bin that seems a tad dry and could use moisture. Pour the slurry into the bag. The paper absorbs much of the water (large bacterial breeding area), the whole thing acts as a sieve, and excess (bacterial food) moisture quickly runs into the bin.
When the bag is drained (after about one hour) charge it with worms and soil and place it in the black-bag lined nursery carton.

Excess Fluid

If your composter does get overloaded with fluid, you'll probably notice a river-bottom odor coming from the bin.
Don't despair.
Remove the soil and worms and undigested scraps, perhaps in small amounts in plastic supermarket bags.
Clean out the bin or pails, and reintroduce the soil and worms mixture gradually by the trowel-load.
This will give the soil some aeration and drainage properties it had lost.
If you have a chance to add some strong fibrous material, such as straw, so much the better.
If the soil is very wet, some dry shredded newspaper will help even out the load.

Eggs By Mail

You may prefer to request eggs by mail, instead of worms, if you need to order worm stock from afar.
Eggs ought to travel better than worms – they don't need a food supply, and can mature while they are traveling.
The downside is that you'll wait a week or two longer for the eggs to hatch, and you'll need to go slow while your babies mature.

Can Vermi-Composting Be Done Only Inside?

Vermi-composting is not limited to inside the dwelling; I have a vermicomposter tower on my east-facing balcony.
If you have access to ground-level, I'd recommend you build an outdoor composter (I can give you instructions for making a composter bin out of interlocking scrap timber, which (bin) won't fall apart). An outdoor composter is going to accept yard scraps as well as kitchen scraps, and can generally be a larger unit.
That said, we live in Toronto (Brrrr!) so an outdoor composter can turn into a frozen pile of kitchen scraps in a short time. Enter the vermicomposter.
Your vermicomposter is suitable for kitchen-volume scraps, and can accept meat products but does not have to be in the kitchen. I have used a tower composter in the laundry closet of a condominium apartment.

Bedding - Paper

I collect all my paper and cardboard and tear it into one-inch chunks while I'm watching TV. I hate to waste anything, even brain cells (grin!).
I place a bed of about six inches of dampened cardboard chips in the bin or pail, cover it with soil, then start adding layers of vegetable scraps and soil with the red worms.
I have found that paper screwed into a ball does not digest as well as paper torn into shreds. I suspect that the balled paper contains too much air for worms to navigate.

The Only Time We'll Discuss Waste

It isn't waste.

It's a valuable resource.

Let's you and I agree to remove the word "waste" from our domestic vocabulary.

"Waste" says that there is no further use for it.

"Resource" says we can use it again – somehow – to our advantage.

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