Ryan and I had an exciting week. Ryan thought he had the week off, but Wednesday evening he got a last minute call to go do sound for ABC. They were looking for interesting news of Opheila, but as it turns out, she was "the lamest hurricane EVER". They hung out in the hotel with a bunch of other news crews and ate tons of junk food. He got back yesterday and left for DC this morning. I haven't seen much of him this month, but his work is going GREAT!
While he was away our worms showed up! I loaded the two pounds of red wigglers into our new worm farm. I thought ya'll might like a few photos to get an idea of what we're doing:
This is the bin.
Here are some worms. You have to look close, they look just like the dirt.
They are already eating some of our garbage, and it doesn't smell at all. (I left that photo out - you don't need to see egg shells and coffee grinds.) The bedding is shredded office paper from the Law School and some peat moss. They eat the bedding too. If you are really interested in worm farms - they are super low maintenance and cheap - there is a great book you can get from your library, "Worms Eat My Garbage" by Mary Appelhof. There is also lots of info out on the web, Google vermicomposting. You don't have to do one as large as ours, we compost everything we can. In a few months we'll have casings (aka really great poop) for the gardens.
So that's it for the Suburban Farm this week. Hope you all are well.
- Gretchen
NOTE: Just found this from a year ago. (Today is 12-20-2006) Thought I would post it, but it is much out of date.