What did we do?

If you throw away your leftovers, they sit in a landfill for years and years. If you feed leftovers to a worm farm, they are recycled into fertilized soil for gardens. I experimented with 2,000 red wiggler worms. These composting worms recycled my family's leftover fruits and veggies for a few months. I weighed our leftovers each day, put that amount in my computer journal and then threw the leftovers into my worm farm. I recorded the amounts everyday and kept track of how many days it took for the leftovers to disappear. more...