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If you’ve always wanted to compost but think it’s impossible because you live in an apartment or a house with a small yard, consider composting with worms.<\/p>\n
Using worms in composting is called vermiculture. It involves keeping special red worms—either Red Wigglers and Red Earthworms—in bins with organic matter in order to break it down into a high-value compost called castings<\/a>, which is the fecal matter the worms produce.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_307999\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"640\"] Worm castings makes a nutrient-dense, highly concentrated fertilizer that you can use in your garden or on your house plants.<\/p>\n Vermicomposting has only a few basic requirements<\/a>, among them: worms (not the nightcrawlers or field worms found in gardens), worm bedding and a bin to contain the worms and organic matter such as food scraps. Maintenance includes preparing bedding, burying compostables and separating worms from their castings.<\/p>\n Vermicomposting has some distinct advantages<\/a> over regular composting:<\/p>\n Worm bins can be easy <\/a>and inexpensive<\/a> to build.They are also commercially available at sites such as Clean Air Gardening<\/a>, WormWoman.com<\/a>, GREENCulture<\/a> and Worms4Earth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Worms will eat almost anything you would put in a typical compost pile such as food scraps, paper or plants.<\/p>\n To get the right kind of worms, check out CityFarmer.org, which maintains a list of worm suppliers<\/a> for vermiculture throughout Canada and the U.S. Or consider online vendors such as WormWoman.com<\/a> or Worms4Earth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n CityFarmer has a step-by-step photo gallery <\/a>of how to put a worm compost together.<\/p>\n![\"Photo](\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Red-Worms-Compost.jpg\")
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