You can buy worms for a worm farm, which is my favorite. Worm farms are great for people who don't have bulk amounts of green waste and have mostly kitchen scraps or for the person who has a lot of that bulk material but they don't like feel like messing with it. So, what I tell people to do is use their bulk compost as mulch and layer it directly on the flower beds. Those organic materials are going to decompose and suppress weeds. Mulch is a wonderful thing and this mulch is free! So it saves you money. So get all that bulk material and use it as mulch. And then you get your kitchen scraps and then put them in the worm farm composting system. There are commercial worm farms units available, or you can make your own. The key is getting the right worms. The worms to get are what we call red wrigglers. On average, a pound of worms will eat about half their body weight per day. So if you have a pound of worms, they will consume half of a pound of food per day. And you can do this indoors. It doesn't smell at all. The worms completely suppress the smell. It even has a kind of like a rain forest type smell. We have two of them going all the time here inside the store for people to see and play around with. A lot of our customers do keep them in their kitchen you know -- underneath the cabinet, beneath the sink or on a walk-in pantry. But since it's indoors, you don't want to put any type of meat or bones or anything with too much fat in there to attract flies and rodents. Besides, that will also make it stink! But they will consume egg shells, though it takes a little bit longer. And it's fun to watch them eat. It's amazing. They'll start eating a whole fruit before your eyes. And composting is also about the quality of the compost that you want to produce. A static pile does not produce as much or as high a grade of compost as a vessel system. And a vessel system does not produce as much or high-grade as the worm farm does. So if you want to produce a high volume, low-grade compost, you can do a pile method. If you want to produce a very high grade, low volume compost then the worm farm is the way to go. Another thing I should mention, too, is to check to see if your city has a municipal composting facility and make use of that.
