Worm condo

We put several inches of shredded wet newspaper on the bottom of a bin (a few air holes on the bottom). On top of this we arranged the worms with a good amount of soil, leaves from the garden, some coffee filters with old grinds, straw, some sticks, the base of a cauliflower head, more wet shredded newspaper, and more straw. We gave the worms plenty of room to work their way up, and tried to arrange the whole ecosystem as we had observed it in the garden, where it was almost as though the worms were in kind of wet, organic-rich islands between areas of looser, less dense material. We left the bin outside for several days until it started getting into the low 40s at night, then we moved it into our basement. We put it near our gas furnace, where it's always 50-60 degrees. We covered it loosely with a large piece of plexiglass and we spray it every day, turn it a little, and give the worms a light diet once or twice a week of coffee filters with coffee grinds, and maybe some carrot peels.

Done