Easy Beginner Productive Worm Farm "Step by Step"!

So you want to start a worm farm? Well in today's video I'm going to show you the simplest, easiest, most productive way to get started straight away at your place. So why start a worm farm? Well these amazing little composting systems actually get rid of and recycle your kitchen waste and if you want to take it even further they make amazing fertilizers in liquid and in worm castings for your garden which your plants, all plants absolutely adore and thrive on. So how do you get started? Well you're going to need to choose a worm farm. Now all the tiered worm farms, they're all pretty good these days, much same same. Just go for one you can get at the best price and go for two to three tiers. Two tiers is generally more than enough. You also need some cocoa fiber that will come with your farm when you buy it. You need to purchase around about 1,000 worms. You start under that, it's going to take a lot longer to get the composting system underway and you'll need a bucket of water to fill up this cocoa peat. Now the cocoa peat you will need to soak it for around about two hours to get your bedding prepared. This is really important and needs the right amount of moisture. If it's too dry the worms won't thrive. So I recommend also you start off with a worm blanket. Now these are made out of jute or hemp fiber and they work absolutely brilliant. Now I recommend you stay away from newspaper and cardboard and that at the beginning and purchase one of these. Just spend a little bit of extra money, this will really help your worms get started and then later on if you want to move into different types of worm blankets I recommend that also. But really start off with one of these first. So here are the steps guys, follow these along and you'll get it right for setting up your worm farm. Now what you need to do as suggested before with your cocoa fiber. Right now I've got this whole bucket here, it's been moistened right up and I nearly made a mistake. Don't do this, I'm just tricking you. What we've got to do is we've got to actually put in the bottom so the worms don't go through yet some type of newspaper or cardboard. Now this worm farm came with a perfect piece that actually fits the size of inside the farm. So we're going to put this in and then if there's any gaps we'll put in some newspaper and stuff like that stopping them going through. So this fits absolutely perfect. What I'm going to do is now this cocoa fiber, it's nice and moist, when you get it you can squeeze it and it feels good and it's not dripping water everywhere, perfect. One little drop coming out of the cocoa fiber is fine. Then we're going to fill up our farm with our good quality cocoa peat. Don't use the cheap stuff man, use the stuff that comes with these farms and you'll get better results real quickly. So smooth it out nice and level that way you'll be able to see what's going on when you add the worms and you're taking really good care of them. So once you've got it all level you'll see sometimes there's a ring around the side of the farm and that's generally your optimum height. Now it's time to add the worms. I have around 1000 compost worms right here and yes my friend they are going into the farm. Oh look at that. Now I've done this early in the morning because full sun freaks them out right they're going to dive down quicker and really does hurt them it's like instant sunburn to them. So I recommend that you do this in a really cool time of the day like the morning or late afternoon to get the best sort of results, less stress on your worms and look the more you take care of just these tiny little things that we do make such a big difference. Now it's time to actually add the worm blanket on top of here and then we'll talk about more about feeding setting them up and getting them established so don't leave yet this video still has more to offer. So I've got a secret tip for you guys here it comes wet your worm blanket down first whether you're using a DIY one I recommend getting the proper worm blankets at the beginning because it just heaps easier to work with at the start and you can really see what's going on and that way they'll be nice and dark it creates a really good moist environment for them and they just enjoy it and you can actually start feeding into the center underneath the worm blanket start we're going to talk about different ways of feeding the worm farm now that we've got it set up and also where to position your worm farm this is really important and some few little maintenance tips as we go I really want you to get this right from the start so you have an amazing worm farm. So where do we place our worm farm well it all comes down to your climate if you're a real hot tropical area shade all year round if you're in a cooler zone then you may want to give them a little bit of sunlight from time to time because they like to sit around between 18 and 24 degrees the temperature there let me know what that is in fahrenheit down below I'm not too sure I think 24 is about 75 something like that but anyway these guys pretty much get shade all day long where they are here we're in summer and then in winter I move them around the other side of the house where they get morning sun for a couple of hours and that warms them right up when they're warm they're just much more productive as soon as they slow down they stop consuming less and sort of go into a ball and hibernate and wait for it to warm up a bit so if you can keep them around that temperature same as what you like you're always going to have a thriving worm farm okay so stay tuned in this video I've got two really good hacks for you for your worm farms at the end of the video but now we're going to get into feeding them because what we want to do is get them hungry we're going to get them feeding fast laying lots of cocoons and eating through the bedding so we can start using everything that this worm farm has to offer for the garden so the worms have settled in for a few days and now it's time to start feeding your worm farm now they'll eat pretty much anything organic just stay away from dairy onion and citrus they're not really very keen on that and it can be deprimental for your worm farm but anything else other than that kitchen scraps is just great and I recommend that you chop them up as fine as possible so you get as much surface area now I've got some papaya some avocado and some old banana peel here that I'm going to be putting into the farm and look I won't need to feed these again until they've nearly consumed it all really what we're doing is we're establishing the farm getting them ready and getting them into eating mode now what you feed them the most is what they get used to the most so if you've got a juicer or something like that and you've got a lot of sort of like fine sort of like carrot and apple and all that type of stuff man they just go mental on that white rice oats all that stuff but anyway let's add this in and they'll be really happy to get into this now the seed in here from the papaya they won't be adding it they don't eat seeds to fold back the blanket we can see the worms are already on top here and so they're actually really enjoying this worm blanket already so there are lots of different ways you can feed compost worms and I'm going to do it from the center for this type of feeding now because this is hollow I can put the food all inside it like this see and I can watch the worms come in here and congregate and really keep an eye on them love this sort of old banana there's a bit of sugary stuff in here to get them really excited quickly and actually forms good bacteria from the sugars in here fast as well so that's a good way to get this farm established and up and running now I'm avoiding the papaya seed as much as possible because as I said they don't eat the papaya seed but they will get into that avo skin too so I'm going to do now is I'm just going to turn that over like that leave that like that then I'm going to cover it over with the blanket and I'll come back now I'll just check this moisture from time to time it's pretty moist little worm there and that's fine they'll move into that in a couple of days once the bacteria starts settling into that food zone and this is where I'll feed them for a little while and then we'll talk about other ways to feed compost worms and worm farms in the future in the future videos now if you've got the moisture right the farm will let liquid out and what we want to do is we want to actually put it back into the farm we don't want to use it yet on the plants we want to keep this good bacteria locked in keep this farm moist just wet the blanket down each time and pour it back in regularly because it's pouring back out and we just want to keep it moist and even moisture so what are my two top hacks that I can share with you so you get a more productive worm farm when you first get started well number one is paper yep a newspaper get it wet roll it up stick it in the corner of your worm farm they'll crawl all through it they'll lay cocoons in it they'll eat it they just love this stuff and then just replace it from time to time as you eat through it now the second hack is remove the tap from your worm farm now this is optional guys I do it from all my farms because I found they just get blocked or you forget to turn the tap on and then they they flood and you drown worms and things like that so get rid of those follow those two hacks and man you're on a win-win I reckon