Now that the weather is warming up, I’m thinking about starting up my worm bin again.  I haven’t had it stocked with worms since before Gregory was born (I *ahem* forgot to keep it moist enough when the temps were in the 110’s and all my worms croaked), but I remember it being a fun activity with Emma when she was a toddler, and I bet both the kids would enjoy it now.  I also hate throwing away all our food scraps - where we used to live we could at least put them in the greens container and they would get composted, and at the property we buried all our scraps.  Here we have a very primative recycling program and all that useful organic waste has to go in the trash.

There’s a worm farm not too far from here so I’m thinking that it would make for a fun field trip once we’re all well again.  I still have the old bin, I just need new bedding (my MIL is going to provide the newspaper out of their recycling bin, so I’m set there) and once we have the worms we should be ready to go.  I’m a little worried that it might still be too cold at night for them, but I think if I have them right up against the apartment building on the patio they’ll be ok.  This place leaks enough heat that they should get some warmth!  I still have to figure out how to keep them alive over the winter with our below freezing temps, but I have some time to research that.  I don’t suppose anyone reading this has any experience with that?