The Crazy Worm Lady

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today kicks off the first episode of a 7-part series with Emily Leuba, the Crazy Worm Lady! She has a wealth of experience in all aspects of worm composting, so let's get into it! Learn More Emily's Email Instagram: Website: YouTube Facebook Groups: Red Worm Composting Experimental Worm Fun YouTube Channels Lilia Kogan Tori Davis World Composting Miles of Worms London Worms & Garden The Blue Worm Bin Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone today? I'm bringing a guest on we are doing crazy composting with worms week and I'm bringing on Emily
0:08.4	Luba so I'm calling it the crazy week because her name is the crazy worm lady.
0:13.4	She is really into vermin composting.
0:16.2	It's tested a bunch of different ways of doing it.
0:18.4	Has a whole lot of stuff to share.
0:20.0	So today we're just going to talk about how she got started in worm composting and where she looked to to educate herself when she was first getting started.
0:30.0	All right, I am here with Emily Luba, aka the Crazy Worm Lady.
0:35.2	Is it Crazy Worm Lady?
0:36.9	That's correct.
0:37.9	The Crazy Worm Lady, which I'm really excited to chat with because as a verma
0:42.1	comaster myself, I'm sure that there's a lot that I could learn.
0:45.1	It's certainly not something I would consider myself an expert in and I believe someone who's the crazy worm lady
0:52.1	just might have something to share.
0:54.0	So would you mind just kind of telling us kind of how you got into vermic composting as a hobby?
1:00.0	Yeah, absolutely.
1:02.0	So in 2016, I got really sick and I've been out of work and it kind of, I had this extra time because I wasn't working to think about stuff I wanted to do with our house.
1:16.1	We had only lived here for two years and we had a yard so I wanted to garden and since the health
1:35.2	was on the forefront of my mind I started to think about what I could do to eat healthier and live healthier so I wanted to do a garden but I wanted to do it organically. And somehow I fell down a rabbit hole
1:46.8	researching and found these Yitubers doing this verma composting stuff which I've never heard of and so basically I ordered a pound of worms and a worm factory 360 and like with no knowledge whatsoever of what I was doing it was just like oh this sounds great it's good compost for my garden
1:57.7	and to grow these plants without you know miracle grow or whatever product that I didn't necessarily want to be putting on my plants.
2:05.6	And next thing you know, I just kept adding bins and adding systems and started my own
2:12.4	YouTube channel last year and it's just kind of snowballed
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