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Make Your Own Cheap & Easy Worm Bin

Today’s feature tip is from Washington State University, Whatcom County Extension, with their instructions for a Cheap and Easy Worm Bin!

Cheap & Easy Worm Bin Project

Cheap & Easy Worm Bin Project


Composting with redworms is great for apartment dwellers who don’t have yard space, or for those who don’t want to hike to a backyard compost bin with their food scraps. Some kids like to keep worms for pets! By letting worms eat your food wastes, you’ll end up with one of the best soil amendments available worm castings. This is the cheapest and easiest to manage worm bin system that I’ve seen:

Materials Needed to Make an Easy Harvester Worm Bin:

  • Two 8-10 gallon plastic storage boxes (dark, not see through!) as shown in pictures Cost: about $5 each
  • Drill (with 1/4″ and 1/16″ bits) for making drainage & ventilation holes
  • Newspaper
  • About one pound of redworms

Visit their site for more details and instructions.

In an earlier comment here on Tipnut, Kitkat highly recommended vermicomposting kitchen scraps. Quote from Wikipedia:

Vermicompost (also called worm compost, vermicast, worm castings, worm humus or worm manure) is the end-product of the breakdown of organic matter by some species of earthworm. Vermicompost is a nutrient-rich, natural fertilizer and soil conditioner. The process of producing vermicompost is called vermicomposting .

Thanks Kitkat for the tip, this is a great idea!

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3 Responses to “Make Your Own Cheap & Easy Worm Bin”
  1. Thank-you for posting this. I have been wanting to do one of these for a long time. I can’t do it this week (we are getting ready for our horses to come home) but I’ll be back the following week to make one!

    Thanks again,

    Dora Renee’ Wilkerson

  2. Vickie says:

    Oh I think this little project will be a family project. Not only can we start composting the boys will have a some worms for fishing. This is going on the weekend to do list. Thanks :)

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