Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 18

Vermicomposting: Make Your Own Worm Bin

Let hungry, squirmy wigglers take out the household trash.

BY CELINE RICH-DARLEY

Illustration by Alison Kendall; photography by Julian Darley

For three years I lived in a house with an outdoor composter. Then my family moved to an apartment in San Francisco where there was neither composter nor green box pickup! What was I going to do with all my kitchen scraps? I didn’t have the heart to put them in the landfill garbage or down the garb-o-rator.

According to the EPA, in 2007 organic-based materials continued ...