About Me

Hi. I'm Mama.

I'm a stay-at-home-mom in the San Francisco Bay Area who became interested in vermicomposting while working on my other blog, Mama Does Good. I've experienced a lot in a short period of time. I've been scared of worms, I've shrieked at my worms, I've killed a bunch of worms (sorry, guys), I've brought them back from the dead (thank heaven for fast reproduction!), I've touched worms, I've held worms, I've handled huge mounds of squirming worms, and mostly I've learned to love my worms. I find great satisfaction digging into my bins every day or two to find thousands of happily munching, moist, squirming worms. It's a weird affliction, I know.

Anyways, it seemed like this might be a good opportunity for me to do a little stay-at-home work while my maniacal children are growing up. 

There are lots of worm farmers out there. They sort of intimidate me. I thought that perhaps me, a regular mama, might not be so intimidating to the new vermicomposter. I ain't perfect, and I don't know it all. But I'm honest, I care about my worms, and I care about your happiness with my product. 

Got questions? Send 'em! 

Comments

[Kim]

Hi. I live in West Oakland. Would love to purchase a pound of red wigglers from you ASAP for my home compost. Could I come pick them up? Please contact me, thanks! Kim Cuddy (kimcuddy@yahoo.com)

[Pat]

Hi, I live in San Francisco, Miraloma Park area, and would like to know if I can avoid the shipping charges and get the worms faster by picking up the worms myself. I'd like a pound. I'm just getting started w/ a first time use of a compost bin. Only have about 6" deep worth of stuff so far. Is one pound going to be too many worms?

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[Heidi]

I have an open air compost pile which is inside a brick surround. The pile is under evergreen trees so it doesn't get much sun. I started it with some old potting soil, dirt, my hen's eggs shells, water, coffee grounds and coffee bean husks. A bit after getting it set up, I began adding my chicken's poo, old hay/straw and rabbit poo each week when I clean out their coop and cages. A friend recently said I shouldn't add the rabbit's poo. Is she right?
Heidi

[Wayne]

About the Rabit poo-

Rabbit poo is very rich in nitrogen and will make everything compost faster. (a good thing) I added about a 5 gallon buckets worth to my bioStack composter during a rotation from one bin to another. less than 3 months later I had a cubic yard of useable compost and its full of earth worms as well (common yard worms, I throw thme in when we find them digging)

I have extra sections and stack almost 2 bins high, and when I'm full, or have used the old bin's compost up, fork over the uncomposted top section and start the second stack anew. That is how I finished with a cubic yard, and the uncomposted stuff is well started.

[len raphael]

composting dog doo:

suppose the only way to compost dog poop would be doing it in a way that heated it up very high to kill bateria. carefully monitored.

so what about all those dog people who are putting the stuff in the green garbage bins and then Waste Mgmnt or whoever is making compost and selling it at their transfer stations?

[Will Johnston]

Hi Mama, This is Will with Growandmake.com. I wanted to reach out to you and see if you had an interest in being the editor for our Composting Guide? email if you'd like to discuss...

[melisser]

Thank you for all this awesome information! I just called all the numbers on your retailers asking about bins and one told me there are bins readily available at the Ecology Center at 2530 San Pablo in Berkeley and there is a discount for Alameda County residents. I'm headed there now and super excited to get my worm farm started!!

[Rena]

Hi,
my worms are doing fine, they have multiplied, I noticed! But with all this nasty rain, everything is getting far too moist and now I have fruit flies! What do you recommend doing?? Thanks for any suggestions!