This is THE resource for worm-based composting! I own the original book (this is a re-release), and it is invaluable in the classroom for teaching about the environment, waste management, gardening, and of course worms! If you are a parent or teacher, I highly recommend it! Students love studying worms, and enjoy seeing them break down food scraps, even in a small in-classroom worm compost bin. And then later they fertilize plants with the compost! Even if you cannot do worm composting on a large enough scale to prevent all food waste from going into the garbage, reducing waste is worth the effort, the compost is amazing fertilizer, and it promotes an interest in science and nature in your students or children.

An enthusiastic, readable and surprisingly comprehensive guide to worm composting, from setting up a box to selecting appropriate worms to how and where to use the compost. A great guide!

A classic, updated and expanded with newer scientific data. Learn all you need to know to set up your vermicomposting system, starting with the handy 12 step checklist in the introduction that will help you determine if this is the right kind of composting for you, and keep you on track.

This is a comprehensive guide to worm raising. It contains information on buying/building a place for your worms to live, what to feed worms, what types of worms to use, how to use worm tea and pretty much anything you might want to know about composting with worms. The one down side of the book is that it makes worm composting seem so easy that I am not sure if I will need the book for long after I get things started.

Let me tell you, I love this book. Just about anything published by Storey Publishing is a great investment if you are a homesteader, small farm owner, gardener, and basically a person needing to know how to do something for yourself. The Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition is easy to understand, fun to read and can even teach an old dog new tricks. It has a skill level for what you are wanting to use the worms for, be it wrigglers for fishing or casings for your garden and explains what different kinds of worms do what jobs. There are plans for building what you need for housing your worm family, from a fancy patio bench with a surprise inside to a stack of old tires. Included are tips and advice on feeding your growing family and even how they multiply. An all around valuable book you can buy for yourself or gift to one who loves digging in the dirt. Full Disclosure: I was allowed to read a copy of this book for free as a member of NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review. The opinions I have expressed are my own and I was not influenced to give a positive review.

The re-release of a classic first published 35 years ago, Worms Eat My Garbage has everything that the beginner to advanced vermicomposter needs to know to make a thriving habitat for earthworms to compost the organic waste produced by an average family.

The book is full of fun illustrations and easy to read and understand instructions. It's impossible to overstate the importance of shepherding our resources and reusing, recycling, repairing the items we can. In the western world, we throw away a staggering amount of food which could easily be turned into compost to improve the soil so we can reduce the need to transport food and grow our own. Even if we don't use the compost in our gardens, it's fantastic for houseplants and starting seedlings.

I have noticed that the compost also seems to make my houseplants stronger and more able to withstand the stresses of being indoors. None of my 'worm compost' houseplants seem to get aphids or scale or mealybugs or any of the other nasties which attack indoor houseplants.

The book begins by introducing vermiculture and spends a chapter explaining the differences and cultural requirements of the most used species and their strengths and weaknesses. The next few chapters explain the different types of containers, how to build a container (or modify a bought one), figuring out and collecting bedding and how to source your worms. The introductory and setup chapters comprise roughly 35% of the content and they are well illustrated and very well explained in plain, readable text.

The next chapters describe what (and how) to feed your 'worm workers', how to keep the environment in your worm box(es) optimal for production and growth, what other critters can possibly pop up and what to do about them (in general, they're supporting characters and completely harmless, so leave them alone to help your worms... the few exceptions are well explained and illustrated).

There is also an interesting chapter of FAQs including a section on the anatomy and physiology of worms and how they do what they do.

The final 10% of the book is given over to worksheets and record keeping examples (extremely useful), resources, links (updated), appendices and indices.

All in all a thorough and entertainingly written and illustrated book about a useful hobby.

Five stars