Best Worm Bin I Have Ever Found - Easily Compost Your Food Waste
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- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the best worm bin he has ever found - The Hungry Bin made in New Zealand and available in the USA which is a flow-through design with no trays to sift or rotate.
Composting your food scraps with worms is the fast, simple and easy way to compost your food waste and transform it into the best fertilizer for your organic garden.
In this episode, John takes you to New Zealand to the home of Ben Bell to share with you his garden and how he composts his food scraps to make the best organic fertilizer for his garden - worm castings.
You will learn about some of the best fertilizers you can add to your garden and how you can make two of them at home. You will also learn about an amazing mulch you can use to mulch your garden that will break down and enrich your garden.
You will learn how easy it is to use a hungry bin worm composter and how to harvest the nutrient-rich worm pee and worm castings.
Next, John will take you to the home of Low Impact Limited, in Auckland, Newzealand to show you how they are composting food waste in their warehouse using the hungry bin. You will discover some of the features of the hungry bin and learn about different types of worms you can use inside the hungry bin.
You will get to see some of the proto-type worm bins that were made out of rolling garbage cans and learn how you might make one yourself. You will learn about some of the many design changes that went in to improve the design of the hungry bin, until the award-winning patented design was finally created.
Next, John will share with you how to hungry bin food waste composting system can be used on a commercial scale to compost all the waste out of a commercial building.
Finally, John will interview the inventor Ben Bell and ask him questions about the hungry bin.
Jump to the following tips:
0:04:31 Best Mulch You can Use in Your Garden
0:07:27 Best Way to add Fertility to your garden
0:08:30 Composting to Make Fertility to your Soil
0:10:50 Break down your food scraps to make the best fertilizer for your garden
0:17:03 Feeding Your Worms (and other creatures in your worm bin)
0:19:18 Harvesting Worm Pee (Liquid Worm Fertilizer)
0:21:28 How to Easily Harvest Worm Castings
0:23:18 What it looks like under the Hungry Bin
0:25:28 Visit to Hungry Bin Warehouse
0:26:23 Best Worm Bin that You can use inside your home
0:29:08 Different Kinds of Worms - Blue Indian Worm and Red Wiggler
0:31:11 How to set up a Hungry Bin to Work Successfully
0:34:52 Best food to add to your Worm Bin to make the best worm castings
0:41:21 Improving to Make the Best Worm Bin
0:43:16 Using a Recycling Bin to make a worm bin
0:44:06 Patented Improved Worm Bin
0:49:17 Using the Hungry Bin to Compost all Food Scraps from a Commercial Building
0:53:30 Interview with Ben Bell
0:53:56 Why did you design the Hungry Bin
0:55:27 How did you come up with the different designs for your worm bin?
0:59:00 Is the Worm Pee or Leachate Good or Bad? What is it?
1:07:58 Worm Tea vs Compost Tea
1:09:50 How can you fail using a hungry bin?
1:12:57 Why don't you have a supersize worm bin?
1:17:38 Why should someone buy a hungry bin when it costs more than other worm bins
1:21:38 Hungry Bins Are Easiest to Use and Low Labor No Heavy Lifting or Shoveling
1:24:38 Any Final Comments or Words of Wisdom for my viewers?
1:26:38 Where to Purchase and Special Discount Coupon
After watching this episode, you will about the best worm composting bin that you can use to easily compost your food scraps into worm castings that can be used as the best fertilizer for your plants.
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Learn more about and purchase the hungry bin at:
USA and Canada
greentools.ca/usa
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
New Zealand
www.hungrybin.co.nz/
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
Australia
www.wormlovers.com.au/
pearthworms.com.au/
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
Europe
www.mynoke.eu
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
Jump to the following tips:
0:04:31 Best Mulch You can Use in Your Garden
0:07:27 Best Way to add Fertility to your garden
0:08:30 Composting to Make Fertility to your Soil
0:10:50 Break down your food scraps to make the best fertilizer for your garden
0:17:03 Feeding Your Worms (and other creatures in your worm bin)
0:19:18 Harvesting Worm Pee (Liquid Worm Fertilizer)
0:21:28 How to Easily Harvest Worm Castings
0:23:18 What it looks like under the Hungry Bin
0:25:28 Visit to Hungry Bin Warehouse
0:26:23 Best Worm Bin that You can use inside your home
0:29:08 Different Kinds of Worms - Blue Indian Worm and Red Wiggler
0:31:11 How to set up a Hungry Bin to Work Successfully
0:34:52 Best food to add to your Worm Bin to make the best worm castings
0:41:21 Improving to Make the Best Worm Bin
0:43:16 Using a Recycling Bin to make a worm bin
0:44:06 Patented Improved Worm Bin
0:49:17 Using the Hungry Bin to Compost all Food Scraps from a Commercial Building
0:53:30 Interview with Ben Bell
0:53:56 Why did you design the Hungry Bin
0:55:27 How did you come up with the different designs for your worm bin?
0:59:00 Is the Worm Pee or Leachate Good or Bad? What is it?
1:07:58 Worm Tea vs Compost Tea
1:09:50 How can you fail using a hungry bin?
1:12:57 Why don't you have a supersize worm bin?
1:17:38 Why should someone buy a hungry bin when it costs more than other worm bins
1:21:38 Hungry Bins Are Easiest to Use and Low Labor No Heavy Lifting or Shoveling
1:24:38 Any Final Comments or Words of Wisdom for my viewers?
1:26:38 Where to Purchase and Special Discount Coupon
So if you don't feed the worms enough they will eat each other? He said they will adjust their population.
John I've had my hungry bin now for 2 years and I'm very pleased. Before I used the homemade totes setup - it was sloppy and messy. I have the hungry bin in my basement storage area with no smells, mess, or escaping worms. It works as advertised and I believe it's worth the price.
Hi there, We haven't had a lot of trouble with critters in the US or Canada, and certainly not with Raccons getting into the bin. Sometimes a dog might drink the liquid, but we find that it's not something they keep doing. In some cases, customers have put a small jug or bucket under the output port to stop animals getting the liquid in the tray.
We have no issues with raccoons getting into the Hungry Bin, they cannot lift the latch. As far as the liquid tray, there is no smell so we have never heard of critters getting into it.
Hi Andrea, the worms adjust their population by laying cocoons based on food supply and access. If the worms do not have an ample supply of food because of competition they will not laid cocoons.
I'm a kiwi that now lives in the USA and i had a worm farm and it was amazing. It's cool to tell folk you are a farmer with 100 thousands head of stock.
Lol. Great point!
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For those who cannot afford this, a cheap plastic storage bin works as well. Just put small holes in the bottom to allow any excess moisture to flow out. If outdoors you can just let this flow into the ground. If you want to be fancy you can build a stand to suspend the bin above a cut back bin to collect liquid as seen in the video. Be sure to put holes in the lid as well. As the video states, worms are top feeders. When the bin becomes full just place a plastic mesh transplant tray (like used to hold small square pots) filled with some worm favorites, like banana peels - over-ripe banana, etc. We used peat moss and carboard sprayed with molasses and banana peels. The worms will migrate up through the mesh over several days. Then you can just pull the tray and dump the worms into a new bin or a bucket until you empty the bin. This way you get a whole bin of vermicompost at once and possibly better digested than what is harvested in the video.For optimum results, use two bin set ups so you can get another bin going right away while repeating the trapping process several times in bin #1. This will help ensure that all organic matter is digested and also give remaining capsules (eggs) a chance to hatch into baby worms to be harvested. This is easy-peazy and the tray full of worms is no heavier than the tray in the video.The best quality vermicompost comes from systems where the worms have been exposed to the material long term and have even re-digested some of it.
I want one , no I NEED ONE . 😊😜
Thank you!
How do you keep the worms from dropping out the bottom holes and drowning in the leachate?
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Personally I use untreated Mosquito netting on the top and the bottom of my worm bins.
On top to prevent fruit flies etc.
The bottom is to stop the worms from falling into the leachate,,,,
I also put a good layer in the bottom of something that is not edible for them
~ so they prefer to be where the food is at the top...
and also the place where they like to go to wait for the food and stay damp and lay the eggs is in the middle.
Also the bottom is fairly compressed.
If you actually want to learn more watch this video all the way through.
Also, there are a lot of other videos about this subject as a whole.
Hope this helps 🙂
Ps, You could make Really, Really Small Drainage holes in the bottom of your worm bins,.,,..
@@gimme0dis0junk0mailall the food is at the top ! Once they eat pee and poop they go up not down to the mess ! ! ! I started mine 3 years ago. I put 3/4” pvc pipe about an inch apart at the bottom and put a thick piece of cardboard at the bottom them put my bedding on top of it added worms then feed every couple days In 4 months my 30 gallon bin was full to where I collect my castings every 6 weeks I. Now have 4 bins. I cut a hole at the bottom under the support bar put a pan to catch the liquid and have a potato rake to scratch the castings out. I get 3-4 gallons every 6 weeks !
I tracked down one of these from a local distributor, got it, installed it and have the best functioning worm bin ever. I've been in vermicomposting for over ten years and this is the best. Bar none. Harvesting from below is brilliant and feeding and care from the top is great. No worms are stressed during harvest and because of the mass, they survive the winters here without additional heat or insulating.
What do you do with the compost you make in the winter? I'm in Canada.
@@read2gainknowledgeI’m in Ontario and I just make a pile and let the worms and all work from within. I’ve been considering making a little poly panel greenhouse for it
I have had my big green bin with worms for 4 years. It works just as stated. It’s great.
What site can I buy them from?
As someone who has owned a hungry bin for over a year now, i much prefer the vermibag. Why, you might ask? Simple really, the plastic hungry bin doesn't allow for any sort of ventilation and so soil gets very compacted in the bin, there no oxygen in the soil at all. Ontop of that, the plastic also doesn't allow for water evaporation and because of the bin's downward shape....you guessed it, most of the water that goes into this bin collects at the bottom, creating a pool in the bottom detacheable part. What's worse is, worms can actually get down in there and drown, not to mention this bin cannot be sealed to keep your worms inside. Your worms can get out from the top AND bottom. The plastic also doesn't retain any heat and the Hungry Bin freezes over noticeably quicker than my vermibag which doesn't have ANY of these mentioned problems.
Thanks, your comment confirmed many of my suspicions about what is going on in the main part of the bin... That there are serious issues that need to be managed regarding air and oxygen ventilation. And worms trying that hard to escape is also a major sign of probable toxicity. A few adventurous worms will explore areas that aren't usual, but they shouldn't be trying to be doing a jail break. Anaerobic conditions (sour) can make worms want to move badly and the conical design of the bin doesn't appear to allow the worms freedom of choice, the food is all funneled where the worms also have to live. These are all problems common to single container (not multi level) bins but in a more extreme situation because of the very tall and conical design... You can't reach down into the bin easily unless you have very long arms and you can't separate food into different zones... Anything you put in the bin is simply jumbled up.
@@tonysu8860 In my case, i had bought new worms. And as all newly bought worms do, they tried to escape for a couple weeks.
Whereas the wormbag can be closed completely and only the tiniest baby worms will find a hole here or there.
Now, i can leave the bin open and no Worms will try to escape. They need time to adjust
You're the " Steve Erwin" of growing greens!!!! Love the energy buddy!!!
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I approve except you don't have Trump crappy accent.
I love your genuine attitude. You convinced me to grow Malabar in Texas, and it was the best decision.
What is malabar
@@dustinallen1658 it’s a vine plant that is similar to spinach
I just toured an urban garden in Sacramento California. They had one of these and several other bins of various styles. This cone-shaped one was their favorite.
Carl Brunberg I live near there, what’s it called or how can one visit? Thanks!
I will stick with my basic Rubbermaid totes. My worms are producing great worm castings. Thanks for doing this video. 😎🌱
I like that it has wheels, because you HAVE to put it inside during winters, otherwise all your worms and their eggs will freeze to death. Unless you live in a warm climate of course.
Just build a compost bin and throw some compost worms on it. They will thrive and multiply like crazy and winters don't bother them that much because they have the alternative of going deeper into the soil when it gets too cold. After a few years I've got a huge colony in my bins and I'm even running a hot compost system that I turn every once in a while. Again: They'll temporary move further down if it gets too hot or too cold. That's a thing that worms in a closed bin can not do.
Wonderful share here! Very informative! I just love the depth of detail that was provided in this video! Now my brain is in overdrive on how to build me a worm bin to provide for my garden from here on out.
Keep em coming my friend!
Love your content. Your so descriptive that I can just listen to you whilst doing something like decorate my daughters room. Which is what I did today.
This is your best video I have seen. Perhaps because I believe in recycloe and Organic manuring. Very happy to see your presentation and honestly speaking supporting the organic farming and composting process.
best worm bin I have ever seen.. Thanks John.
40:15...that's awesome to know, it can make your plants more pest resistant. Nice!
Great video with so much info! Thanks so much.
Such a great video & interview! Thanks so much, John, for all of the tremendous amount of work you put into bringing this valuable information to us. Love Ben's ingenious invention! You've convinced me to buy a Hungry Bin! I paused this video to place my order! Can't wait to recieve it. Thanks so much for sharing this video!
The best BSFL Bin i have seen .... i have been searching for best bin design for over 200 videos on TH-cam, Love from India
Nice topic today. I have a hungry bin and I love it. Is so easy to use.
Amazing video wow! Super impressed with his journey and what an amazing product. When I get a bigger place ima get one of these for sure 👍🏼
Your Arnold Schwarzenegger impression was fantastic. Love the worm bin too!
Thanks for your Videos John. What a life, traveling the world living out your passion. Bless you Bud.
Thanks John. I just ordered one, that thing looks awesome
Well dang! I think this is a super idea! I am going to get one and set it up in my basement. That way the temp will remain fairly constant at a perfect temp for the worms. It will be convenient for me to add my daily food scraps and just a short distance for me to harvest the worm "tea" and the castings. Thanks for the video!
Fantastic video! I just ordered one of the units from Amazon and am looking forward to getting it set up.
Cathie Galbraith how is the smell ?
Awesome enjoy New Zealand! Its a lovely country, very beautiful.
Amazing.Thanks for sharing .That's what I need in my backyard.
Man you have a lot of energy LOL. Anyway I've watched your video twice. I bought the hungry bin for my grandkids, makes everything simple and easy. Thank you.
Great show and piece of equipment. Thanks!
Great video! It was full so many critical things I knew nothing about and you both explained it so prrfectly. thank you for the index... i noticed after i started making my own :). if you know nothing about worm farming with gardening together please watch the entire video.
I love your videos. Long or short. Thank you for sharing and doing your part to improve people's lives.
Great content, and a very funny delivery! Thank you! :)
Super awesome idea!!!! I totally want one!!!!!
I have one as well, they are fantastic!
Hi, John. Thank you so much for this information.
Awesome video!! Thank you for all you do!
Best video yet. Thanks John.
thank you for showing us this worm bin
I’ve had a hungry bin for a bit over a year and it’s still going strong. It’s had a few ups and downs but the worms seem happy. They’re definitely hungry!
What did you pay for it year ago?
Thank you for the video. I made the purchase of a hungry bin after watching this.
Funny, I was just watching juicing videos then randomly was wondering about worm composters, clicked on the most interesting looking thumbnail and same video host, yay, I like John!
Thanks John. Fantastic stuff.
57:00 in John, and Brian talk about the importance of people taking full charge of our own inputs, and outputs for a better Planet! If processed right this Hungry Bin could easily process humanure as well as all other precious organics people are carelessly throwing away! It’s going to take all of us folks to make this Planet a heaven on Earth!
I just ordered one really excited about giving it a try
Two years on, are you still using it?
@@petadee5141 yes
@@davidc1502 Has it ever all spilled out the bottom when removing the tray, even once? :P
@@davidc1502 howz the worm composter going ?
@@ggstorm9777 Actually cleaned it out put all the compost in my garden as well as the worm just filled it up again and adding native worms to it.
Just love all the detailed info, love from Oz
We've been using geobins for our worm bins for the last four years. Works well enough if you only plan to harvest once a year. Always looking for a better method though. Gonna check this out.
What's a geobin?
John's videos : 1h00-1h30 could be reduced to 15 min but John brings useful info every minute and his amazing passion and memory do not run out of interesting facts for the whole hour 'lecture'. It's long winded and yet still an excellent watch.
I like how happy this guy is 😂😂😂
Thank you for this I ordered mine !
Thank You! I love this idea!
Thanks for posting this I was going to get the Swedish composter but I think I’m gonna start off with my worm farm just for cost sake hoping they ship to the USA
great idea: the component compost idea was presented by Rodale back in the 50s. thanks for the recasting of a great idea
The best I have ever seen; keep it up.
i really have to start making my own worm compost
Very smart bin easy to harvest
Genius! Amazing indeed.
Super enjoyed this video!
I went to your yard sale a few years ago. It was in a townhouse. I bought some books.
Hi BEN,great job,super idea and I love the thought of government buildings and businesses maintaining their own waste. Terrific invention for the gardening world, which may bring attention to the average person that does not grow their own food. Inspiring just like the gentleman your standing next to (John). Be safe down there in NZ.,might want to watch Dutchsinse on you tube for Earthquake forecasting. I know you have been experiencing quakes often there recently,I suppose it would disturb worms in the earth whenever a quake shakes. Thank-you for your information you 2 have shared :)
enjoy your videos have been watching for years
Totally love this.
Learn more about and purchase the hungry bin at:
USA and Canada
greentools.ca/usa
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
New Zealand
www.hungrybin.co.nz/
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
Australia
www.wormlovers.com.au/
pearthworms.com.au/
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
Europe
www.mynoke.eu
Use coupon code GYG for a special discount
It is great explanation Thank you.
I want to be friends with this guy, so cool and happy
Here? Wow didn’t know you visited. Welcome to New Zealand!
very expensive! I love the design and convenience. ill have to save up for it but it will pay for it self over time. thank you John for sharing.
Great video. I like Ben, he's not just a salesman but knowledgeable and passionate about his product. Thank you for sharing.
Wow i just woke up :P You are so full of energi xD
love your teaching
Wow. John. This is the best vedio you have done. Thankyou for sharing about the hungry bin but also the inventors story. I am 61 years old and 4 four years ago started making worm casting knowing this is one of the ways i can make a living. I can't wait to get one. Thankyou.
John...I live in Boston area. How to manage harvested castings here and worm tea during the winter? I dry the castings on a table and put them into a bin for the spring. The compost fluids are in a large bucket. Would it be better to just put them in the raised beds throughout the winter?
I love the way the plants speak thru you, you are such a character. Those worm bins are very wisely built. Thanks for sharing. I'll check your channel for it but you should do a video on plant cloning and all the different methods of grafting. And comb that hair sometime green daddy.
you know this guy is a real deal when he digs into compost pile with his bare hands
This is a great worm bin. It looks like they could make the liquid collection tray could be 2 - 3 times deeper to hold more!
Empty it often
Wondering if the open tray at the bottom holding the worm liquid attracts flies or other unwelcome insects?
Love this guy so much
I wonder if you couldn't just run all your veggie waste through a Vitamix blender first, then pour the "soup" right into the establishing raised beds? My rationale is that nutrients would be more readily available to the worms, it would lose the rotting smell faster, and as liquefied it would prevent raccoons and critters showing much interest. I'm starting raised beds this year ( a more proactive Ruth Stout technique), and using a little fence around raised beds as well, so the critter aspect isn't as important.
This is so cool how the city building is composting their food scraps. Such a clever idea! I'm going to see if we can do this at ours 😍
Horrible conditions for the worms.
Wow , would have loved to meet you while you are in Auckland!
Hi John!! ** IMPORTANT INFO ** I just noticed that TH-cam keeps unsubbing me from your channel. It's freaky. I literally was just going through my recommended videos page and saw that I wasn't subbed, and I thought that was weird because I have been for years, so I clicked subscribe and then like 20 mins later the same thing happened. Wanted to let you know in case your noticing a drop in subscribers and views and wondering why.
love it!
Thank you for the video
I bought it! Great bin. I've been using a stack system. Luv this.
How do you recommend I store the castings till I need them...(can't use them in the winter)
They need to stay moist to keep the beneficial bacteria alive right? Would a plastic trash bag or maybe a plastic tote work?
John, I am inspired and starting an organic garden at my parents place in Louisiana. I just ordered my seeds but last night I was reminded that when the Mississippi River comes up, the yard is quite flooded. I mentioned planting trees to my dad, but he said he loses the pecan trees he planted, every year and its because of the water. Any suggestions? We don't have much economical flexibility and are hoping we don't have to buy soil and do a raised bed, even though that would be wonderful.
Most excellent !
Great system 👍🏻
It's a commitment to watch you but it's so worth it. Great topics always!
Out of all the things I've fed my worms, the thing they seemed to like the most and reduce to a fine powder (almost dust-like in consistency) was dry, brown pecan leaves.
Dude i have a pecan tree thank you so much for the information
Is that all you feed them now??
Liked the video and thaught it was informative. I also liked to see the progressive improvements in the product. How can I get in touch with the inventer to give him an idea for another improvement that he can incorporate in a future upgrade.
Good Lord! Everything in this video could have been shown in 15 minutes. You love the sound of your voice!
Glad someone does... I didn't. Terrible, shouty, grating voice.
lol Bobby is bi polar
Wonderful episode!!! Have had my eye on this system for awhile now! Thank you for the code!!!
Great video bro. I just ordered one.
I would say that instead of starting the bin with compost, you could get away with a mix of paper/cardboard and torn up greens.
They seem to especially like matted grass with a bit of sand.
I base this off my experience hunting worms for my bin, where I found many of them in the grass growing along the edge of my raised bin, and where I most often find them in my bins.
Yes, it's food, but they seem to like to bed in it, too.
I'd say you could easily replace half of a compost-starter with the above bedding.
The product looks good and works well but the bottom tray certainly attracts lots of flies which is worse on the hot and humid days. You may like consider how to stop flies sucking that liquid.
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I’m sold! I’m going to buy one of these.
Have u bought one ? If so how do you like it
Awesome Video 👍👍
Hi John I have a question about compost bins ,can I use metal bucket as a place to put the worms and the other materials ? I am a total beginner to compost but I just got confused by people some say its not an issue to use metal bins some say its bad because of the rust .
My bonsai soil is bushski compost ran though a worm bin. The liquids run off and that's my fertilizer. The worm and bushski compost make my plants grow pretty great. All of my plants are in bonsai mix
John I bet you talk to everyone on the plane. I love your thoughts,your very inspiring and I grin quite often as I listen and watch your intelligence at work. You've my vote:)
Very nice show