So, don't remember if I told you, but I took a look in my worm bin the other day. I'd decided to leave the little dudes alone for awhile, as I felt I was taxing their patience with my over-attentiveness. I took a look and found a whopping 5 adult worms! What happened!? No wonder the kitchen veggie scraps I'd been putting in the bin weren't getting eaten as fast as I thought they would.
I'm trying to resist just ordering more worms. For one thing, worms propagate. I just have to be patient. For another thing, who wants to pay $10 for a styro cup full of worms? And for a last thing, I did see a bunch of baby wormlets who will soon be eating their weight in kitchen scraps daily!
Did notice a few other interesting things growing in there though. A mushroom, tall and skinny. Some very furry and light looking mold on the damp shredded newspaper bedding.
What a saga! Having a worm bin is like having my own personal soap opera.
May 18, 2008
May 12, 2008
The Great Sunflower Project
Have you heard the buzz about how bees are starting to have a hard time navigating and may be actually diappearing in some places? Supposedly, all the pesticides in the environment could be contributing to the bees having a hard time. Which, I might add, is not a good thing for crop production. Which, I might add, does not bode well for people being able to eat in the future. So, I heard about this and thought I'd pass it along.
The Great Sunflower Project
Here is a great resource about why bees are so important over at The Xerxes Society.
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