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
The CFTs require a rolling cart to get under them for harvest or a special tool from above but wasn’t too bad once you got used to it. We have a lot of moles and groundhogs in our area so I’d be worried any unground worm bins would get eaten.
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.
They’re pretty labor intensive but being able to shuffle them around the farm here to where it’s easier to load/unload is what I like about them. I’m still working on scaling up my harvesting but am working on something similar to a Grizzly rock screen but at a lower price. As for selling we actually ran out this year so I end up cutting people off. Just keep adjusting price till you run out. We don’t offer it in winter mainly because I don’t like sifting in the cold but otherwise we dont have any trouble finding customers, but because of the food scrap biz and selling eggs/beef/pork we have a ready list of customers.
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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
The CFTs require a rolling cart to get under them for harvest or a special tool from above but wasn’t too bad once you got used to it. We have a lot of moles and groundhogs in our area so I’d be worried any unground worm bins would get eaten.
@@OurSustainableJourneyI’m going to line my raised garden bottoms with predator fencing wire before filling it.
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.
They’re pretty labor intensive but being able to shuffle them around the farm here to where it’s easier to load/unload is what I like about them. I’m still working on scaling up my harvesting but am working on something similar to a Grizzly rock screen but at a lower price. As for selling we actually ran out this year so I end up cutting people off. Just keep adjusting price till you run out. We don’t offer it in winter mainly because I don’t like sifting in the cold but otherwise we dont have any trouble finding customers, but because of the food scrap biz and selling eggs/beef/pork we have a ready list of customers.