If You Cook, You Need Worms. 

is she still refusing food as a worm or the food you gave her disappears in one day?

🤣

your girlfriend is the God-Empress

More like perfect sliming, amirite!

Hate it when that happens. You come home after a long day of work and there she is, writhing on the floor, subsisting on dirt and the dead skin cells gathering in your carpet. You pretend you don't notice. "Hey honey, how was your day?" you ask, masking the terror in your voice. She does not respond. You rub the place where her shoulders had once been and kiss the top of what you hope is her head. "You seem stressed babe. Maybe we can cuddle up on the couch and binge that show you've been meaning to watch?" You receive nothing in the way of a reaction, save for frantic twitching and a steady pulsating of her body mass. You spend the rest of the night in fear and agony, but you do not waver. You do not waver. Women, amirite!

as he says he takes a few minutes to sell the idea 😂

that’s what I thought 😭

I expected different worms tho

Bro said "whelp" 💀💀💀

How do you collect the castings?

This is so wholesome. I love it.

@@llamzrt When the bottom bin has no visible food left, I pour the finished castings out on a tarp, form it all into a mountain, wait a few minutes for the remaining worms to start to burrow down away from the light, then scoop it all off the top. I keep removing castings and waiting and removing and waiting until most of it is gone and I get to the gathered up wormball at the bottom. Then I put those wormies back into the active feeding tray. I use a Worm Factory 360 with stackable bins, so others may have different methods depending on their set up.

40k poorly maintained compost bins sounds like absolute hell on Earth 😳

I live in Northern California. How do you grow all those herbs in what temperature please? You start all by seed or combination plant and seeds.

Hell yeah

I think the idea is that the worms distribute the castings themselves.

@@ry4nolson for the subpod, i think that's the idea, but harvesting castings from a stackable worm bin (what I have) is a whole other process

I'm surprised you haven't got into it. You learned a lot from in the worm business. Cool

reject modernity, embrace tradition

didn't know that but i'm glad i now know they hug each other and do a little dance to survive

Hope you can get back to it soon! I've been looking into bokashi as a sort of "pre-composting" method to help break down the food so the worms go through it faster. Plus, I think you can also break down meat/poultry bones with bokashi!

@@IjeomaThePlantMama thanks, me too! :3 Yep, combining the two methods is great, I find bokashi especially helpful as a buffer - when there's too much waste to add simultaneously, it could wait indefinitely in a bokashi bin (while being worked on by the microbes).

damn i thought i was the only worm kid here, up until like age 6 worms and snails were like my favorite thing in the world

I was a total mealworm and microscope kid! Now as an adult, nothing calms my ADHD-addled brain more than spending an hour separating every worm and cocoon from finished castings. It's oddly quite relaxing 😌

I loved playing in the dirt and pulling out fat earthworms before putting them back when I was a kid. I love nature so much I started (but not finished 😪) a bachelors in evolutionary biology

I loved insects a lot when I was younger

Eisenia fetida aren't really the "problem worm" when it comes to forest erosion but definitely something to be wary of. There's also the "jumping worm" scare but that's entirely its own issue.

Similar issues in australia due to introduced worms, but bio security don’t seem to make a big deal about it

@@LunaZeidner I've been battling a jumping worm invasion, they turn your garden soil into a barren wasteland 😮‍💨. My landlord thinks they came from imported soil or manure.

@@IjeomaThePlantMama see now I'm scared to buy any manure or soil that I don't know the exact source of. Time to worm farm!

I just learned this in my bio class. Almost all earthworms in the US come from European colonists! What!

keep doing what you do at your own pace & style and we'll always come back to watch!

hold up what is a lifestyle channel

@@internetshaquille goat, I share everyone's excitement of watching you branch out from what might be strictly categorized as "cooking content"

How far have you gotten since posting this 6 months ago? I haven started yet but love to hear how it's coming for you. Thank you

Apparently they are slipping OTHER types of worms into sacks of red wigglers !!!!

Check for moisture. If you're in a climate like Arizona, you're gonna need to keep it more moist in order for it to break down

YES!!!

Also if you pivot to being a drama channel maybe cover the Uncle Jim's worm drama. Asking for a friend. 🤨

but if you've got a worm system that works then it's probably better to relegate the compost pile to just things like old plants you're pulling out or other stuff that there's too much of it to give to the worms