This is an awesome thread. Tried scrolling through all 28 pages and I did not see anyone making this suggestion: freeze organic food scraps you want feed to your worms first then thaw them out & add to your bin. Any veggie scraps or rotten fruit will break down & get all slimey VERY quickly after thawing & your worms will love it- I keep a big plastic ziplok bag in my freezer for whatever veggie/fruit scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds, etc. I want to make into worm food...I usually pull out maybe a handful of frozen scraps every week or 2 to mix with some dry cannabis leaf and/or broken down egg cartons- let it thaw for 8 hrs or so & then I add my amendments (ie kelp, gypsum, lime, alfalfa.etc.) before feeding it to the worms
Absolutely the ONLY way to do that!
very good advice, probably cuts the worms consuming "time" to about a third of what fresh fruit/veggies will do.
In fact I get the produce bags from the store (they are good plastic ones, not the chinsy thin ones) anyways, after freezing I put them in those plastic bags, and after thawing I mash it all up into a gross slimy puree type of thing, then I dig a hole in the wormbin, and plop that bastard in there, then cover up, and in about two hours they'll be a writhing mass of worms..
From what I can tell, worms def have favorite foods..
FRUIT... thawed and squished...
melon, pears (my favorite because the seeds are tiny), apples, grapes, mangos, tomatoes...
I quit giving them my coffee grinds about a yr ago. Those take forever for them to eat.
BUT I have found that coffee grinds are a good nitrogen input for my compost pile.
If you get to know any people that work at fruitstands or a grocery store, and you could put together some kickass wormcastings
Or you could dumpster dive..