Vermicompost!

On today’s blog I’m going to talk about vermicomposting. It’s been a while since I started learning about how to have a more sustainable lifestyle. I changed many things in my daily life, and one of them was to have a vermicompost in my house. 

The first thing I wanted was to reduce the amount of garbage in my house. Some people calculate that 50% of our garbage is food waste, so having a compost or vermicompost reduces a lot. At first I thought about having a compost bin in my yard, but my mom (like most of the people) believed that compost would include a lot of non-friendly animals to our house, like rats or flies. And the other thing was she believed that it would have a bad smell. I knew that those are myths, cause with a good manage that can't happen. In the search of trying to convince my mother, I found about vermicomposting. The amazing thing about vermicomposting is that you can have it even at an apartment! 

Vermicomposting is basically a bin with “floors” and worms. The worms eat the waste of food, because they eat things on decomposition. The worms that are used in a vermicompost are a special type of worm, it’s the Red Californian worm. That worm is used because it can eat their weight in a day! The poop of the worms is called humus and it’s an excellent organic fertilizer for plants! One of the benefits is that it’s really easy to use, there are many containers for vermicomposting for sale, the one that I have has three levels and it’s made from plastic, you can find from wood and other materials. 

It’s awesome when you get the final result, in a few months you actually see the peel of a tomate turn into an amazing fertilizer, and you see with your own eyes the cycle of nature! Reducing the amount of garbage in my house was a huge change. I hope everyone one day could have their own compost or vermicompost, or that the city halls can implement a composting plant so they can manage the food waste of the citizens.