What's up everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. We are back with Steve Churchill from the

Urban Worm Company and we've been talking a lot about different aspects of both

Burma composting and worms themselves this week.

The question is, how do you put this all together?

And let's say you do have your very first worm bin or warm bag

and hopefully it's an urban warm bag,

but you want to fill it up.

What do you actually do? What is the step by step process?

And there's no better person to talk about this than Steve. So I figured Steve would come in and share a little bit with you all.

So there's a saying I like from Abraham Lincoln that was if you gave him six hours to cut down a tree.

It's been the first four hours sharpening the axe.

And so starting a worm bin is very much the same way.

It's not a matter of just getting the worms and putting them in some material.

You want to prepare the worm bin by first preparing the bedding and worm bedding is a is a form of organic material it will break down

over time just like food but it is a high carbon it is a high carbon material

this could be something like shredded cardboard or paper or leaves or compost.

Possibly even some verma compost are going to be very high in carbon and

you're going to want to start your bin with one or several of these. A couple other

good options are Pete Moss and Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola

It's much more sustainable than Pete Moss

but these are all high-carbon materials that are also just

we call it bedding and so you're to want to make sure that you have an ample amount of bedding in your

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