Burl's Worm Farm

Well, until I have a real farm I can start with a worm farm! I have wanted worms for about a year as a way to make something from our vegetable waste. Troy does not think our yard is big enough for compost piles but a worm bin is small :)

So, Saturday I called Rob, the local worm guy! He spent nearly an hour chatting with me about how to do it and showing me his small suburban homestead (garden beds, bee box, fruit trees, chickens and rabbits coming soon). I want all of these sweet people on our commune.

When I got home I tore old newspaper into strips and got it damp for the bedding material. Then in goes the worms on one end, in their mix of compost. And in goes some plant food scraps on the other end - to start molding, the worms actually eat the mold and bacteria that grow on the food scraps. They need some time to adjust to the transition and will probably begin eating in about a week when the food is good and moldy!

Any tips from the experienced ones?

Collaboration

Collaboration, that seems like a good word to kick off a site about our theoretical commune, or farm, or homestead or intentional community, or family village or whatever the heck we call it. Here is a place where we can share our ideas and research with each other. Perhaps it can facilitate the discussion of fleshing out what it is that we envision for ourselves and how we can make it come to be.

We can share our thoughts, collect links to articles or resources online, discuss books, etc. Or maybe it will be of no use at all. I don't know, but it's easy enough to set up and try.

One of the first things that I do when researching a topic is collect lots of bookmarks and try to organize them in some useful manner so that i can come  back to the websites again and again to find what i need and learn more about the subject. If you look near the top of this site, you'll see a tab for the "Links & Resources" page. On that page is a google doc where you can add links and notes about your links.

Let me know if there are other features you'd like to see on this site.

When are we going to go visit more communes?!