Worm Composting Workshop

Miranda Pfeiffer shares her vermiculture expertise.

Miranda Pfeiffer of the MICA Sustainable Food Project & the MICA Sustainable Worm Project gave an amazingly informative indoor composting workshop today! Miranda discussed how to construct a worm bin, what worms eat, what worms shouldn’t be fed and how worms reproduce. At the end of the workshop, Miranda showed how to harvest a worm bin – how to separate worm castings (broken down organic matter, or “worm shit”) from still-to-be-digested food scraps from worms. Students in attendance were given the opportunity to sign a waiting list for free worms; as the worms in the many worm bins that Miranda has distributed throughout the MICA community multiply, they will be harvested and passed on to the students on the free worms waiting list.

Organized by SF/SC vice president Marcello Cunha, this workshop is one of four sustainability-related workshops that will be happening on campus this semester. The next, on March 7th at 2pm in Main 110, will deal with a sustainable diet. In April, look for a workshop on the possibilities of passive solar design! To learn more about the MICA Sustainable Food Project, come to a Garden Interest Meeting this Saturday Feb. 27th at 2p in Cafe Doris, or visit  http://micasustainablefood.wordpress.com/  To learn more about the MICA Sustainable Worm Project, visit http://buddhaworms.wordpress.com/

Miranda shows how to harvest a worm bin.

The worms used are called red wigglers.

Often, worms will be found in clusters like this one.

Still-to-be-digested food scraps separated out during the worm bin harvest. Look at the tiny baby worm on the carrot!

-Zoe

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