Worm Farms
Worm Farms can be purchased at your local gardening centre, and some councils here in Australia also supply them. If you're handy with tools, you could even make your own.
Some people have made them with two or three polystyrene containers from the fruit shop. Others build their worm farm out of wood. If you do this, be careful not to use arsenic treated wood, as this could harm your worms.
Worm Farms are a great way to dispose of your food scraps and even newspaper and cardboard.
There are heaps of items that can be safely fed to worms. They don't like acid food though, so don't put a lot of citrus fruit skin into their bin. Worms will eat teabags, sawdust, food scraps, vegetable and fruit peelings, stale food, leftovers, in fact, almost anything that was once alive will be acceptable. These scraps will be turned into very useful compost.
Don't collect the common garden worms for your worm farm - you need to obtain some composting worms, and you'll need about 1000 to get started. Sometimes you can get starter kits containing 500 worms, and these are ideal for the smaller worm farm.
