Love your worms top tips for happy worms

Worms are hard workers, processing your food ‘waste’ into nutrient rich plant
food and soil conditioner. Here are a few tips on how to keep them happy! We regularly update the education area on our website, which includes
answers to frequently asked questions, troubleshooting tips and videos.
worm farm inputs Check it out and join the conversation!

40 - 50% 50 - 60% as needed

Keep it cool Not too much
Nitrogen Carbon Water Heat is the number one enemy of Overfeeding can lead to
Food scraps Paper, cardboard Sprinkle water when worms. Keep your worm farm out of an unbalanced, air-starved
Green waste hay adding carbon to moisten the sun, somewhere that stays cool. environment, with food rotting
before the worms can eat it.
In very hot weather take action -
Spread feed layer evenly : keep less than 50mm thick
keep a frozen bottle of water buried Spread the food out and keep the
in the top of the farm until the feed layer no more than 50mm
YES please! weather cools. thick.

Balance is key Fluff it!

Most fruit and Teabags Coffee Egg shells
veggies
Keeping a balance between nitrogen Worms need to breathe, so let
grounds [food scraps] and carbon [paper and the oxygen flow. Give the top 2-3
cardboard] will ensure a happy worm inches a fluff up every now and
farm. then with a fork to let the air in.
Egg cartons, Paper towel Uncoated
tissues Vacuum dust paper Whenever you add nitrogen, add as Adding paper and cardboard also
toilet rolls
much [or more] carbon - easy! keeps the feed layer open and airy.

Small amounts Pests Smells

Bread, pasta, Processed
rice foods A worm farm is a natural A healthy worm farm will only smell
environment and will attract other like rich soil. If you have acrid or
living beings. Some insects may be rotting smells then too much food
n0 thanks! a sign of imbalance - ants can mean waste and not enough carbon has
too dry, flies can mean too much been added.
food waste and not enough carbon.
Add a lot of carbon, give it a good
Check our FAQs page for details of mix and fluff it up to let the air in.
Citrus Onion, garlic Plastics, foils, Dairy Meat pest management.
Pineapple Spicy foods non-organics Oils Fish

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