Nice looking machine 🇳🇿🪱

Santa didn't get my hint this year, so I'm going to put one of these on my list for Mother's Day! ~ Sandra

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Those worms weren’t stuck, they were exhausted from doing the JITTERBUG!

Your screed is too sharply angled.

What about temperature?

Interesting experiment, thanks for sharing, I started my bokashi journey a couple of months ago, and i have had incredible success with the two bucket method. I am not sire how your setup was, but I have a spigot in the bottom bucket and a brick that keeps the two bickets from sticking together. I used a piece of fabric at the bottom of the upper bucket, to prevent the holes from getting blocked. One difference is I do not add meat scraps I am vegetarian. But I've had no issues with smells or any critters getting in the buckets, just wonderful fermented food scraps. I have not yet made a soil factory. I have been burying my food scraps in the backyard and they decomposed almost completely in 4 weeks. I tried a bit in my warm factory, and the worms seem to like it. I am going to try the soil factory as well. Thanks for sharing your experience!

Hi, How do you fatten your worms, what did you feed them?

Thank you very helpful for fungus gnats.

What are you using for bedding there?

Man is it just that finds hilarious that you cut yourself mid sentence in the video? hahah

What brand of water sprayer is that? I could really use something like that!

The yellow sticky fly traps work well in my container pot plants ☺️

I don’t mind the gnats but solder flies scare my younger daughter. Now she won’t come in the greenhouse 😔 BT is having no impact, just the fly swatter and fishing the larvae out when I toss the bin. I think they may eat baby worms too as I keep finding more larvae in the corner I’m relocating my cocoons too 🤔

In my experiment on cocoons that had thoroughly dried out over the summer in potting soil, wisps started emerging after I kept them in a moist and microbe rich environment for 95 days. From this, I learned to never give up on cocoons! It's great that your system still has so many living worms to rebuild the population. ~ Sandra

The system seems to be working well🇳🇿🪱

Good to see the system coming back. 👍🏻

Coffee grinds sure do heat it up. I added about a 1 lb of grinds and I can’t keep the bin in the 70 even keeping the greenhouse 60-65. It 80s no matter even after the watermelon icee it’s still hanging with no external heat. I’m even shading the bin by placing it under the table. My greenhouse fabric is uv block n a huge maple tree block most sun from even hitting the fabric. I ve been turning the contents every 3days to disperse the grinds evenly next feeding I will go lighter on grinds & nitrogen, i assume the hamster poo would be supplement most of the need for greens ? I ve also added leaves too extra bedding n food that could be heating up too

So the solder flys are still there I ve since started using BT mosquito dunks to prevent them going forward. I don’t see them much here in pa but I think either they came with my worms or they came with my coffee grinds 🥹😔 I’m holding 70-90deg without heat mats as the heating keeps ambient at 60 -90 with the sun light. Started adding leaf matter to cover the food and my bin is cracking with life. As I break down the clumps I’m seeing hundreds of caccoons. Thinking about starting a small shoe box to make a nursery ?? I was not expecting to breed but I seen a few smaller worms in the condensation forming on walls. But as the bin cycles from night to day it’s ok but day to night the drops dry out and they become stuck to plastic bin. What kinda conditions do the babies like ?? I was thinking just a small amount of worm chow to keep that one feeding?? Just gave a dose of watermelon n celery end purée and wow they devoured a half of melon in 3 days 😳 I ve added 1200 worms and there happy. Most have stopped venturing thru the holes into the tea bin 🙏I thought they though it was the daily spa n pool 🤔☺️Hope all is well down south and fall is treating ur bins well 😊

Once u fix the moisture level the worms will love that 🇳🇿🪱

The worms will love the mango! ~ Sandra

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Thank you for the update

Thank you so much for your videos excellent info

Thanks for the video! I create bedding using 60/40 compost to shredded paper/cardboard. I do not pre-soak the cardboard. As I add in compost I spray it with a hand spray bottle. I do the same with the shred, spray as I add, spray as I mix the two. I spray until the bedding is damp but cannot squeeze any water out of the bedding. When I add bedding (shred) I spray it with water and mix it lightly. When adding food scrap and worm chow, I cover with bedding and spray it with a water and molasses mix. I shred cardboard with a cross-cut shredder. It makes fluffy shred that helps with keeping the bedding loose. I do not add any compost after the initial setup. Only bedding is added.

one of those worms was twerking it whether they wanted to or not. 9:20

n00b question: why would you not just automatically mix the worms all through it?

thank you

can i mix the egg shell with other worm chow? i mix it with wheat flour, corn flour, coffee, oats and gypsum. And I keep it in one can. So is it good ?

What is Vitamix?

Found this at Home Depot and just pock s it up got it 😂ė

Damaged or moldy vegetables: does it harm the worms?

I've found that tough, fibrous plant material can usually be processed easier in the FoodCycler if you dehydrate them a bit in an oven prior to grinding them. The fibers tend to become more friable and will shatter rather than bind up when compressed.

I believe that the base design is wrong. the teeth are comparable to those made of steel. this is plastic, if printed right, the rigidity is about 1/3 of steel, which would mean that the teeth should be 3 times smaller to accommodate the same deformation. and as it is about 10 times weaker than steel, the tooth geometry is too aggressive by itself. sure, you are not breaking aluminum with this, but soft woody materials, and that should allow to reduce the relative rigidity and allows a more forgiving tooth. but the motor is really underpowered to shear 2 or 3 teeth at the same time, so it would actually benefit from smaller teeth to avoid getting into stall conditions. think of every tooth cut as a scoop that you are taking from the materials, if its a square, it means that every teeth must cut the depth-of-cut*2 + teeth-width in the "worst cut" case, and that is multiplied for the amount of teeth that are synced in the cut to allow a calculation for the torque required to cut a known-shear-strength material.

Keep these going

I don't think African Nightcrawlers are a good composting worm. I think I'll stick with Redworms or Euros. 😊

With you being busy and all, may try to check in once every two weeks if it looks dry just add some ice and maybe some frozen water bottles

I wonder how much time it'll take for this system to bounce back.....

Sometimes you can find some cocoons that are dormant into you add more moisture and bring them back so they can hatch 🇳🇿🪱

You should really install some kind of soil moisture monitoring system. Maybe then you could be alerted before your worm bag becomes catastrophic.

hows your product doing? is it selling much? have you ever seen how industrial food processors classify stuff like grain or beans those machines work good and could be used for things like this.

I did forget to mention about cocoons and there could be some in the system as they can survive a lot longer. After this feeding we could see an increase in the worm population and not just from those I recently added to the system.

I'm running an experiment on some cocoons I found in some very dry potting mix this summer. I have faith that the cocoons will come back to life! ~ Sandra

So sorry about your worms. Thanks for helping the worm community with this video. ~ Sandra

Sad to hear worms gone, s this system unattended

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First of all thanks for sharing. Lost of great ideas to make improvements. I think an extension of plywood at the top, would allow the material to flaten before reaching the screen. If you notice the uper corners of the screen is not being used. An upper courser screen to bust up the clods.

no need to sterilize

Regarding the moisture, maybe install one of those cheap Bluetooth moisture probes so you can monitor the moisture level over time with your phone. Or you could get fancy and install some drip tubing in the lid and hook the Bluetooth moisture probe to Home Assistant and trigger the drip tubing to automatically activate when moisture gets too low and stop when it's saturated.