What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are back to our regularly scheduled programming where it's going to be just me on the podcast. I really hope you enjoy the last two weeks.

First week with Stephen, second week with

Jared talking about all sorts of stuff that they know a lot more about than I do,

which I was really fortunate to both know them and have them be willing to come on the podcast. So today's question is

coming from Isaac who is a listener who checked out a bunch of episodes on a long drive

and then sent me a bunch of questions that I'm really thankful for because now I get to

answer a lot of them here on the show.

And today he wanted to know about vermy composting, also known as worm composting.

And just a brief overview of how it works,

why it's so beneficial, and basically

the steps on how to do it.

Now, the first thing to know is that all worms are not created equal.

When you're talking about vermy composting, you need red wiggler or red earthworms.

Now the reason why you need them is because they are the ones that are going to be the best suited to living in a vermy composting environment.

They're going to be the ones that will eat your garbage and cast, also known as poop it out into

worm castings, which is why we're doing this in the first place. We want those beneficial worm

castings. They are full of micronutrients,

macro-nutrients, beneficial bacteria, etc. And so the reason you would do

this is there's sort of two reasons.

There's one is the selfish gardening reason and that is to get a lot of fertility into your

soil and then there's a higher reason because worms will reduce quite a bit of the

waste streams coming out of your home.

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