Worms
I am the type of animal that consumes the food in the bins.
What is red wiggler worms?
What foods do I like?
What are eggshells, tea bags, certain fruits and certain veggies?
This is the waste product after we enjoy food scraps
What are castings?
By doing this we keep waste and other items that can be broken down out of landfills.
What is reduce, reuse and recycle....or composting?
I come in different shapes and sizes that holds all your material.
What is a vermicompost bin?
We don't have any of these body parts?
What are eyes, ears and legs?
These foods make my stomach hurt and are to sweet!
What are sugars?
You put my castings here after you collect them from the bin
what is the garden?
worm compost is 100% organic, so you won’t be putting yourself, your family and the environment at risk by using these nasty stuff.
What are chemical fertilizers?
I am brown, soft and help make a home for the worms
what is soil or coconut coir?
We don't like this much, so we burrow.
What is light?
These foods are too acidic for me and give me stomach aches so we don't eat them often.
What are acidic fruits?
You need us to create fertilizer
What are red wiggler worms?
75% of our waste can become this
What is worm bedding/food?
We eat these left overs to help us live and grow
What are food scraps?
We usually live this long
What is 4 - 6 years?
We can consume this amount of food daily.
What is the worms body weight?
A chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility.
What is fertilizer?
This is how much money America spends a year in managing our food waste
What is $165 billion?
the breaking down of organic material through the use of worms, bacteria and fungi.
What is vermicomposting?
We produce 2-3 of these a week in a healthy worm habitat
What are cocoons?
*Fun fact: it takes about 11 weeks for the new babies to hatch!
1/3 of this ends up in our trash
What is our meal?
Some people refer to casting liquid as this
What is black gold fertilizer?
This is how much food waste we trash every year
What is over 1.3 billion tons of waste?
2,000 is our combined total number of residents.
What is how many worms live in our vermicomposts?