Today I want to talk about my food prep for my worm bins. I feed my worm bins twice a week. First feeding is a week old partially composted mixture. This week I will be adding two five gallon buckets of veggie scraps, one five gallon bucket of coffee grounds, two bags of fresh cut grass and one bucket of rinsed rabbit manure. The manure is added or not based on how strong or weak my feed stock is that week but is always rinsed well.
I add all this into my Jora hot composter tumbler. Give it a few good spins to get a nice mix and that is it. Every other day or so I will spin it to keep the feed stock mixed well. It will get very hot and I leave the feed stock in the hot composter for a week before the next feeding.
This is the before and after feedstock. As you see you will lose around 50% from all the liquid seeping out.
The main benefit of this for me is I live where it can get very hot and this helps get the feedstock threw some of the heat cycle so my bins don't overheat. It also allows all the liquid to seep out of the composter and not in my worm bins. The second feeding every week is just shredded wet boxes. As long as they are wet enough the worms will consume them and seem to enjoy being in the cooler wet shredded boxes when the temperature starts to peak.
I hope this is helpful for everyone. How do you prefer to feed your worms?
