markevens
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looking to set up large worm bin - 2008/05/03 20:44
Hello,
I'm looking to set up a somewhat large scale worm bin. I live in a Buddhist monastery and are trying to grow as much food as we can for ourselves. We have around 15 acres of land we are farming and are expanding.
We get a lot of food scraps from the kitchen, probably a dozen 5 gallon buckets a day. We also are letting the local tree trimming companies dump their chips here, which I shred into fine mulch. We also get around 50 lbs of coffee grounds from the local coffee shops each day.
Right now we do a lot of sheet composting, but we can't really take advantage of the food scraps because they are so wet they clog the composter, even though it is PTO powered.
I recently have been reading about worm composting and am really excited about implementing a large scale system, but have no idea where to begin.
A friend of mine used to run the CCAT recycling program at Humboldt State University, which has a large EPM Inc. WormWigWam. As those run in the thousands of dollars, I don't think we can afford one, but building one is certainly an option.
Do you have any suggestions. Good information resources are appreciated too.
Thanks
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