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Creating a Worm Bin

March 29, 2008 By: gander Category: environment 2 &rarr Have Commented →

Now that my red wiggler herd has arrived, I need to find a more permanent home for them. They came in the mail before I was ready, so I made a quick home for them out of a rubbermaid container that we had available. However, experience has shown that an unmodified rubbermaid container isn’t a good home for worms as they get too moist and eventually drown. Let’s take a look at our options:

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Extreme identity theft protection!

March 19, 2008 By: gander Category: Uncategorized 1 Comment So Far →

My herd has arrived!

ID theft protection

For those of you who can’t tell what that is, it’s a handful of Eisenia fetida, red worms, red wigglers or whatever you like to call them. We like to compost and we’ve used red wigglers before. This is our newest herd.
You’ll note some white in that picture. That is shredded junk mail, finanical documents, etc. which will be eaten by my worms. I’d like to see some thief put together my information after it passes through the gut of a worm! Hah!

I also challenge you, intrepid reader, to find any other blog on the Internet advocating such innovative and eco-friendly methods to prevent identity theft! ;-)

Do you have any interesting methods for preventing identity theft?