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The woods is the best therapy. They tell me the arctic ice caps are melting so 32 degrees is right around the corner since we are experiencing a polar vortex in Ohio. Right ???? It’s minus 15. We will survive. I subscribed to your channel.

Hope you folks are doing well!!! Thanks for the view of your timber!!! Take care and have a great day!!!

I keep some of my outdoor bins in my greenhouse over the winter. On a sunny day, it feels like Florida in there! We haven't had temperatures below freezing yet, but the worms would definitely slow down if they were just kept outside. I like to keep them working 😉 ~ Sandra

Yeah... i didnt trust their stand. But they do peovide instructions on how to build a stand out of 2x4s and pvc, and you can put that on casters. Its very convienent for small scale vermicomposting. Either for home scale or small market garden that is using castings to make small batch worm tea. I have been pleased with my UWB set up like that.

I order two rounds 600 & 1200 and sum how here in late fall I have solder fly and larvae 😳 surely not what I paid for. My worms came from Tennessee?? Wonder if he drop ships from other suppliers??

I've put in my first order - 1 lb of nightcrawlers - from Uncle Jim's and was wondering how they'd look and what would need to be done off the bat with them, so thanks for the video! Both the reds and crawlers you got look very active. Just wondering why they all seemed to have a concerted effort in both colonies to try to push the lid off from all directions and escape? 😂

I use about 60/40 compost to shredded paper and cardboard. Once established and need to make a new bin the mixture is 50/30/20 compost/shredded paper, cardboard/material from established bin. I do not soak the paper, I simply spray it as I add it to the bin. Same with other materials I add. Lay some down and spray it, repeat with whatever bedding you are using. I also spray a water-molasses mix in the bedding where I add food. Not much, but it helps the microorganisms and the worms like it. I never get leachate from my bins, I never let them get that wet. I also use a cross cut shredder om my brown paper and boxes from Amazon. It creates small pieces which are faster to decompose and be eaten and they stay fluffier due to the cut of the shredder since I do not soak the material.

Your compost appears as though you could use a tub grinder before stuff gets put into the compost pile. That would break up the branches, newspapers, bones, and what not. Do you have a compost turner?, or do you just use your tractor bucket to turn your piles?

You keep teasing me with little tidbits of how your food scrap operation works. I have learned so much from watching your videos and asking questions. How do you dump those big food scrap bins? You can't be manhandling all those every day? Are your drivers regular employees or friends and family? Do you have more employees that work on your farm for the dumping and cleaning the buckets and bins? Thank you so much for the insites to your operation. I wish more people did what you do. There are so many landfills getting filled with stuff that should not be in there.

The giant totes seem much easier to deal with for the day to day feeding and fluffing. Harvest time, however, seems like way more physical work. I have been waiting to see you sifting a big tote to see how you do it. I hand build harvesting tech in my garage to make very little physical work for me with my bin. I have a 2'deepx8'widex4'tall cft. I'm planning to build a second one very soon. The plan is to have four of them with room to park my pickup still. I'm still fine tuning my harvesting. I just did the business consultation with our state rep. I am working on starting a green waste composting company in my city. The thing that is scaring me about it is where to sell the castings, besides on the internet, and can I create enough castings. I would love to sell wholesale.

A trick with stuff like that is hammer the old shaft through with the new shaft as a punch.

Ah, there is the hammer. With a chisel? lol Use what you got lol

The cicada sounds don't seem to bother in the video. Maybe it is just my sound settings? I am very bad hearing though. You need a 3 pound hammer! With a large punch and a pliers to hold the punch so you do not hit your hand. It took a broken hand to learn to use a pliers to hold the punch.

Ha ha! You answered my question about how many cfts you have. I just didn't watch far enough before commenting. Why were you moving your cfts around?

I have gotten behind on watching your videos. I'm catching up though. How many cft do you have now? Have you given up on cfts? I have noticed that you are using alot of big totes now.

Where do you sell your finished castings? Do you have contracts with businesses, like flower shops, or farmers?

What do you think about peat moss as a bedding option? Should it be pH adjusted with dolomite lime and if so what ratio?

be a god boy and replant a few trees to compensate for the dead trees.

Looks like u have a good supply of wood

Thanks.

Your casting are looking great and lots of it 🇳🇿❤️

How much did the cows weigh

YUM!!! Honey!

Love this update! Thanks!! 🎉

That machine should cost no more than 1000$! Why not just buy a used grain screener/trommel? They are dirt cheap on marketplace and it would be more efficient

wow. you have internet in this location? who is your provider?

Larvae have a mouth then as they pupate the mouth seals closed. Adult flies dont have mouths. Once they're flies their life span is very short.

I found sifting my worms in hand sifting relaxing in small amounts

I love seeing the baby worms coming out of their cocoons. My children, even though they are adults with children of their own, still get volunteered to help their parents. My husband calls it being "volunteer-told." 🤣 ~ Sandra

There’s nothing worse then cows jumping fences they will keep u busy 🇳🇿✌️

I use cardboard but layer on horse manure, food scraps grit and such.

Great video my friend 🇳🇿🪱

How long are you going between feedings to have avocados growing?

Hi Steve, one solution to get rid of ants that works on a small scale is to submerge the bin contents for a few hours. Pour the excess water off, then use standard remediation techniques (adding carbon, etc.) to dry out the vermicompost. ~ Sandra p.s. I love my bin roly polies!

Worms are looking great🇳🇿🪱

S it blue worm on the lid the one u trying to pick up in begining

worms hate onions

Jicama Spanish H like a onion texture with apple flavor and crunch!

You collect a lot of food scraps worms must love it 🇳🇿🪱

Hi Steve, I figured out that I get rocks in my bins when I use manure from farms that muck out barns with gravel on the floor. I see that you tease your daughter quite a bit! ~ Sandra

Hey Steve, I have the standard Rubbermaid totes, no holes in the bottom, no lids. Most of the time they are indoors but, because our house is for sale, they are outside. I also have a stacking tray system, a turtle shaped children's sandbox worm bin and four in-ground garden worm buckets. I haven't seen a CFT system I could use because I'm limited in my mobility (I'm a wheelchair user) and it looks like you have to be a gymnast to harvest those systems! Welcome Nemo! ~ Sandra

Exactly how I will probably end up doing it. Seems to be pretty straight forward though. Thanks

I really like that you do ginormous worm bins plus just regular size that us ordinary folk have! I just fed chicken bones to my worms, but the bones went through a pressure cooking cycle first, so they are super soft. ~ Sandra

Your worms are looking great .I love circus music .do u sell your worms at all or keep them them for yourself 🇳🇿🪱

Great video 🇳🇿🪱

Hey Steve! How’s it going? That’s why started doing vermicomposting.

Thank you for sharing I will learn from you

Great video on starting a worm bin .i hope your worm are going well 🇳🇿🪱

Ha ha, good thing I don't have a cat because I use a lot of open totes for worm bins! ~ Sandra

I’m so clad u fix your tractor now back to work 🇳🇿