Our New Pe(s)ts

One normally doesn't think that sharing your home with 500 or so worms is a good idea, right? But that is just what we are doing. After reading my sister's recent post about her plans to start vermicomposting, we decided to do a bit ourselves. The idea is pretty simple: a bunch of worms live in a bin and eat your vegetable scraps and paper. No need to find a place for a compost bin outside or worry about stirring it. Just let the worms do their thing and in a few months you will have some worm castings (aka worm poop) to fertilize your garden.

Here are the worms right after I dumped them into the bin, starting to settle in and get cozy. They were in such a big twisted mass; I wonder how long it will take them to unwind themselves and spread out. Happy eating, little worms!