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Vermicomposting with Tim Hortons Cups.

Jeff — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:14:56 +0000

Here at Friendly Worm Guy its been my plan for a couple of years now to do this on a larger scale, and so I am now doing it. Vermicomposting with shreaded Tim Hortons paper coffee cups, I am using the coffee cups as the carbon % of the new bedding that I am adding to the worm beds.

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I will keep you readers up dated with pics and final product (the Worm Castings made from Tim Hortons Coffee cups)

Snakes love to eat worms, and Lorie picks them out of the worm beds and brings them somewhere safe

Jeff — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:24:25 +0000

Well it is so funny, I pick worms all the time.and that doesn’t bother me one bit.. but if I see a snake in the worm bed… OH MAN!!!! its not the fact that they eat alot of our worms…. I just can’t stand to even look at them without getting this funny feeling all over my body and almost have to run away from them…If I was to kill the snake I wouldn’t hear the end of it. SO I JUST CALL ON THE WIFE! she comes over and picks it up and brings it to a nice safe place across the road far away from me and my worm beds..

Our Chickens feed our worms

Jeff — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:26:39 +0000

Here at the Friendly Worm Guy farm, we now have Laying hens… well 50 of them. and they give me alot of poop!!
and what do we do with the poop!! you guessed it!! we feed it to the worms.
we have 2 groups of hens at the moment, we have for the last 2 years brought in ready to lay hens, now our flock is closed and we incubate our own replacement birds. Well I guess I should say a bird to add to our number of laying hens.our oldest hens are only 2-3 years old and still producing well.

Here is a sweet little red replacement bird for our flock

Here is one of the older hens

Moles love to Eat Worms.

Jeff — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:23:51 +0000

Hi There.
Please check with me by Email, to order worms in Canada. USA ordering page is fine, I do have European Nightcrawlers and Red wigglers for sale. Just check to make sure I have them in Stock!! My Canadian worm beds have been turned up side down by these guys and have ate most of my worms this past winter.. Here is a pic of these ugly moles that have turn my worm life upside down at the moment..

Oh YA!! Did you know these guys can eat up to 200 worms per day!!!
so email me at Friendlywormguy@gmail.com to order worms.
Thanks Jeff

Stories from the Past

Jeff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:55:03 +0000

The older farmers in my area sure gave me some funny looks when I started asking them If they had an Old Fanning Mill hanging around their farms. “What in the world would I want a thing like that for”? . They had not used them since the 1950′s. I heard the story from each, about cranking those old things all day, just to clean that grain so they could plant that years crop. Those machines were hard work, what are you going to do with something like that.

I told them, I was going to try and harvest worm castings with one. I had not even seen one before, but had only heard of them. After harvesting all my worm casting by this point by hand, with a little 1/8″ screen all night to get ready for a garden show the following day, I was ready to try anything.

The Orange one on the left came from the farmer next to me, It was made between 1913-1915, by the Young Brothers of Almonte Ontario,Yes that makes this machine about 95 years old. This unit is the first one I got, it is still operated with the hand crank on the side of the machine.

The red one on the right is one I got at a farm sale, the farmer had sold his farm. When I went and looked at it I was very happy to see what I saw. Someone had put an electic motor on it.
Even though the orange one had a crank on it,and made harvesting the castings much easier. If my hands could be free to handle all the used up bedding I was putting through this machine, I could make alot more finished worm castings in a shorter time. After a few adjustments it works great.

I have made a video of the red one in action! Harvesting Worm Castings

Vermicomposting At Trow Associates Inc (Sudbury Ontario)

Jeff — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:41:07 +0000

Liz Lessard, CEPIT
Project Manager
Environmental Division
Trow Associates Inc

In Mid Winter Liz and I talked regarding this office (Trow on Regent) getting set up with vermicomposting. there are about 50 employees, about ¾ of whom are office staff, working year round.
They have been composting there for a while now (Liz has been bringing it home!), and Liz would like to get setup properly there, Her bin is getting full at home!
They produce about a Large ice cream pail per week, possibly more if we get going on the rest of the staff who are not currently composting.
Most of their organic waste is coffee grinds and filters, with a bit of fruit,
The worm bin in the pics is the second bin we setup, The first bin was on the small side, with the amount of organic waste that was being put into the bin for the worms to compost.
The first bin was started with 2 pounds of Red Wigglers, and was about 60 litres in size. good size for a family. but we soon found out it was way too small for the waste Liz was adding to the bin, so we steped up to a 120+ litre bin, this bin has been going for a couple of months now, this bin has been working just fine.

Liz is doing a Great job with her worm bin, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK…. Liz.

Worm Castings!! do you have yours yet??

Jeff — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:26:45 +0000

Worm castings

(aka ‘vermicompost’) are one of the most incredible natural fertilizers around. Aside from the incredible growth promoting abilities of this material, the beauty of it is that a very small amount goes a LONG way, as shown in multiple university research trials (Ohio State University). Also makes an excellent compost tea.

Worm Castings only ship to Canada! there will be a postage fee, for shipping.

Worm Casting, are made by the worms for Nature! In this case, I have alot of worms in worm beds making these castings for the purpose of selling them to you, to make your plants grow like NEVER BEFORE!
This is a video of my Fanning Mill making the worm castingsHarvesting Worm Castings

This bag of Worm Castings is 1 Litre and sells for $3.00 with tea bag. Remember a little goes a long way!

1 litre bag with tea bag $3.00 plus shipping

10 litre bag with tea bag $20.00 plus shipping

Please send along your postal code so I can get you a total price with shipping. So you can get your Plants growing like never before.

FriendlyWormGuy Worm Castings For Sale at Royal Winter Fair In Toronto Nov 7-16 2008

Jeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:13:22 +0000

For the 10 days that the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto Ontario is on. The Northern Ontario Agri-Food Education and Marketing Inc. will be selling our worm castings. In the Northern Ontario Agriculture Pavilion. So if you are going to be at the Fair be sure to pick up a bag of Worm Casting and watch your plants grow like never before.

Final Update on my Giant Sunflower.

Jeff — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:31:22 +0000

This is the final post about my Giant Sunflower, It is NO LONGER standing..
Well, The Sunflower made it to an outstanding height of 11 feet!! I think that is GREAT for having a 120 day growing season in northern Ontario. I am sure the Worm Castings helped out alot in that area to get the sunflower to that height.

The head of the Sunflower did not fully develop,

I did manage to dry the head of the Sunflower and get some seeds for next year. At that point maybe we can do this again, (it has been fun)
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Friendly Worm Guy (Worm Bins)

Jeff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:39:36 +0000

For awhile now I have been making Worm Bins, and making sure they work!! and guess what! they work great. The 2 bins I am going to talk about are both plastic worm composting bins, A small apartment size and a 58 L bin great for a small family. And YES they are both FOR SALE here at Friendly Worm Guy.
First we will talk about my nice little Apartment Size bin.

This nice bin is great for the starters and kids out there.this nice little bin is made with a vent in the lid,comes with enough bedding to start the bin,how to take care of the bin paper and a Worms at Work sticker. this bin should be started with 1/2 lb of worms.
This bin sells for $29.99 (without worms) and $45.00 with 1/2 pound of composting worms. (Shipping is extra)

Second we will talk about my 58 Litre bin, Great for a small family.

These bigger bins always have problems with a lack of air making it to the bottom and middle of the bin causing smells in the bin. I have made this bin to correct this problem. I have made this bin with an AIR VENT TUBE through the middle of the bin. No More lack of air making it to the middle of the bin, and great composting at all times….

I have a little vent on each end of the bin, connected to the air vent that passes from one end of the bin to the other.

Here is a picture of the Air vent Tube that runs from one end of the bin to the other, and YES this air tube is VERY Strong, it would be very hard to break the air tube, I think the bin would break first.

This bin sells for $39.99 (without worms) and $79.99 with 1 lb of composting worms
(Shipping is extra)
Yes each bin comes with Bedding to start bin and how to take care of the bin, paper.