For more adventurous types, another option for processing food waste is worm composting or even starting your own worm farm. It’s definitely taking composting to another level as it’s possible you can even turn this hobby into a part time business selling worms for fishing or worm tea at local farmers markets.
Worm tea is a concentrated mixture of worm castings and other organic materials that acts as a natural fungicide, repels insects like mites, white flies, and aphids, works as a soil conditioner and improves water retention in the soil.
You can follow these step-by-step instructions to build a low cost, highly productive worm farm or wormery to supply your garden with a year round supply of worm compost. There’s also a great video below that explains…
How to Make Worm Tea
Worm tea is like vitamin C for plants. It’s a natural immune system booster that provides good microorganisms and nutrients that plants and soil need to fight off insects and disease. It’s pretty easy to make and you have kids they will love you for all time if you let them help out.
