{"id":1575,"date":"2006-01-27T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:46:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:46:29","slug":"the-worm-farm-in-my-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"The worm farm in my basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/000_0071.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/000_0071.0-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Ever heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=vermicomposting&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">vermicomposting<\/a>?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I keep a few hundred (thousand?) red worms in my basement to compost my kitchen waste.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I started out with a dixie-cup sized portion of worms and compost from a fellow Master Gardener about three years ago. I used a simple rubbermaid bin to house the worms, but then switched to a tray- type bin last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Once a week or so I *feed* the worms with the leftover greens and fruit from the bunnies, some coffee grounds, occasional egg shells, and shredded junk mail for bedding material.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/000_0069.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/000_0069-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">After a few weeks or months, the worms turn what you see in the above photo into beautiful, dark and fluffy compost (the photo at right is over-exposed). My houseplants thrive on this stuff!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/000_0069.jpg\"><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">It just amazes me. No work on my part &#8211; other than a desire to *waste* less &#8211; no smell, no pests, no trouble at all &#8211; and free organic fertilizer for my garden!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of vermicomposting?I keep a few hundred (thousand?) red worms in my basement to compost my kitchen waste. I started out with a dixie-cup sized portion of worms and compost from a fellow Master Gardener about three years ago. I used a simple rubbermaid bin to house the worms, but then switched to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The worm farm in my basement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}