Mom's Earth Worm Pile

When I was a kid my mom always had a huge organic garden.  Part of organic gardening is using compost. Mom's compost pile was back by my bunny cage. When I was little I thought it was a worm pile because it was loaded with huge earth worms. I didn't know it was actually for the garden. We lived right across from the creek so I was always out fishing. Before I'd go fishing I'd run back to the worm pile and dig for bait.

You can buy containers to make your compost in. I'm telling ya what, when they first started marketing containers for composting I thought what a rip off. Some of those composting systems are very expensive and people buy them because they just don't know how easy it is to make compost.  

If you live in the country you don't have to use containers at all.  Mom's compost pile wasn't in a container. It was contained in a fence made of chicken wire. No mess, no smell, and it was beautiful compost...

My grandparents owned a big farm and the garden was huge. My mom is from a big family of nine kids. The garden was a huge garden.... huge. Even for that big of an opperation the compost wasn't created in containers... it was a pile of beautiful earth worms! LOL Sorry, I had to laugh. I still think of my compost as a bait pile not compost. And that is one of the key ingredients to making a big beautiful pile of composted vegetable matter. Worms! Not containers...

Martha Stewart did a segment on vermicomposting under the kitchen sink. I wrote up a page about how to do worm composting in a bin: vermicomposting.

For those living in the city, the under sink compost bin is inexpensive and it will keep your vegetable scraps out of the landfills.

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