Urban Worm Bag & Composting Worms & Bedding Bundle

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The Urban Worm Bag

The Urban Worm Bag's quality and design make it look at place in your home. Built out of breathable material, it can be entirely sealed close and your worm composting adventure can be kept out of sight and out of mind when you want it to be.

Especially considering that a properly maintained worm bin won't have any smells or pests inside of it anyway, anyone visiting your home would have no reason to suspect that they are sharing a room with thousands of earthworms - although that can be a great conversation starter!

Assembly is extremely easy, and it is shipped in Sustainable Packaging. It will take the average person about 15 minutes to fully assemble the worm bag with simple step by step instructions. Additionally, the packaging the Urban Worm Bag Eco is shipped in avoids unnecessary branding, so after assembling the worm bag, your worm's first meal can be its cardboard packaging!

The Urban Worm Bag Processes Waste Fast! Being able to hold anywhere from 4 to 8 pounds of Red Wigglers, a fully stocked and well maintained urban worm bag can handle about 15-30 pounds each week! Although there are many variables, 50-70% of solid foods that they eat will exit the worm as castings. You can expect your first harvest to be after 4-6 months.

The Urban Worm Bag Mimics the Ease of Commercial Scale Worm Farm Systems. Most commercial worm farms use 'continuous flow through' systems. These are by far the most efficient systems to use as you are able to add food to the top of your worm bin where the worms are most active, while harvesting worm castings out of the bottom in a continuous flow - hence the name. This minimizes disturbance to the worms and helps create higher quality biology in the worm castings.

 This makes the entire process very simple. To harvest the worm castings, simply remove the bottom portion and open the bottom to pull the worm castings out. The contents of the bag will eventually settle to the bottom again to repeat the process. You can expect your first harvest to be only 4-6 months after starting!

Guaranteed Durability and Workmanship. The Urban Worm Bag is built with 900D oxford fabric lined with a water-resistant, but breathable liner. It features marine-grade zippers on the top and a zipper-free patent-pending fully removable bottom to allow for easy feeding and harvesting as well as a lightweight iron frame that will not bend or droop under a full load. The “overseam” stitching is reinforced and will not tear at the seams, even under the stress of 120+ pounds of vermicompost.

The Urban Worm Bag was designed with durability in mind, allowing us to offer a lifetime warranty on materials and workmanship!

 Frequently Asked Questions:

What is the Urban Worm Bag Eco?
The Urban Worm Bag Eco is the updated version of the Urban Worm Bag with the identical form and function, but is made from recycled materials in North America.
 
What are the Dimensions of the Urban Worm Bag?
When fully assembled, the Urban Worm Bag has a length and width of 26.5 inches and a height of 31.25 inches.
 
How Many Worms Should I Start With?
This is totally up to you. The less you start with the more money you save, but the slower it'll take to get the ball rolling. The more you start with the more it'll cost, but the quicker things will get going. A good starting place for a beginner is typically less than 2 pounds.
 
How Often Will I Need to Add Moisture? Once the material in the bag is initially brought up to an appropriate moisture content, it is unlikely that you will ever need to add moisture. As you add water-rich food waste, that water will get incorporated throughout the bin. It is much more likely that you will need to add dry carbon material to soak up excess moisture rather than needing to add water.

How Much Maintenance is Required? Worms can go a long time without new food. A week or two long vacation shouldn't impact the worms much in a healthily functioning bin. An hour a week is a good estimate of how much time you will spend tending to the worms on average.
 
How Heavy Will the Worm Bag Get? A fully loaded worm bag can weigh up to 125 pounds! That's a lot of worm castings!
 
Can I Use It Outdoors? It can be used outdoors, but it should be kept out of direct sun or any potential rain. Worms will do best at room temperature. Temperature extremes can be fatal to worms. Be sure to place the worm bag on an level surface if you do choose to place it outdoors.
 
How To Use Worm Castings? A little goes a long way! You can add 10-33% by volume into your soil mixes, or incorporate it into your soil at a rate of 1 pound per square foot. If you are able to, it is ideal to concentrate your worm castings in the root zones of your plants.
 
What Prevents The Material From Falling Out? The bag closes at the bottom leaving a small hole. Because your worm castings will compact, nothing will fall out of the hole until agitated. Commercial systems have gaps that are 8 square inches without having significant amounts of material fall out unplanned.
 
What About Water Dripping Out The Bottom? Any time your worm bin is consistently dripping water is a sign that it has been mismanaged. If it is dripping consistently it means your material is waterlogged, and thus anaerobic. Waterlogged and anaerobic conditions can kill your worms as they need to breathe oxygen too. If you are having this problem, your priority should be to fix your bin by adding dry carbon rich material to soak up the extra moisture. The bottom covering will catch some of the moisture, but still, I would be sure to place your Urban Worm Bag in a place that you could easily clean if water did escape and be sure to maintain proper moisture levels in the bin.
 
What Can Worms Eat? Worms will eat almost anything that decomposes! Some foods are better out of the worm bin though such as meat or dairy products, greasy, oily, or salty foods, and high acidic foods such as citrus.

Red Wiggler Composting Worms

Quick Features

• This is NOT a "red worm composting mix" - you will actually receive Eisenia Fetida Red Wigglers, and NOT Indian Blue Worms like most other large worm vendors.
• Depending on the size of the worms, each pound will typically contain 800-1200 worms. Orders will include mostly adult worms with some baby worms and cocoons.
• Worms are shipped weekly with FREE SHIPPING!
• Live Delivery is Guaranteed.
  

What Makes the Red Wiggler so Great?

Not all earthworms are the same. There are an estimated 7,000+ species of earthworms discovered today. Each has its own natural habitat and environmental niche. The natural habitat of the Red Wiggler, or Eisenia Fetida, is what makes it perfect for a worm composting bin.

Their natural environment is towards the top of the soil profile, just the first few inches,  where there is plenty of decomposing organic matter to eat. Being more exposed to environmental factors than other worms that burrow deeper, they have adapted to eat and reproduce as fast as possible because there is a lot of available food and they don't know how long they'll have until environmental hazards wipe them out. To be in a constant eating and mating frenzy is written into their DNA.

By properly maintaining your home worm bin, you can keep your Red Wigglers in their eating, mating, and pooping frenzy year round. With proper care you can expect your Red Wigglers to eat half their weight in food daily and double their population every 90 days or so.

Besides how quickly they eat, the worm castings they create are nature's own provision for plant nutrition and soil health. Worm Castings have profound impacts on soil structure, water retention, pest and disease resistance, and nutrition even in very small amounts. Additionally, the castings are pH neutral, cannot burn plant roots, and pathogenic organisms cannot survive the worm's digestive system - instead these worm casts are teeming with beneficial microorganisms - commonly reaching over 1 million microbes in a single gram.

Charles Darwin, who had spent his life studying different animals, spent the final years of his life studying earthworms. He understood how amazing earthworms are when, after all of his studies, he stated that "It may be doubted if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures."

Frequently Asked Questions

Shipping Policy and Live Delivery Guarantee

Worm orders are taken Monday-Sunday and are shipped via USPS Priority Mail the following Monday or Tuesday. You will receive an email confirmation with a tracking number when they are shipped.

To ensure live delivery, be sure to be available to bring the worms indoors and into their bin upon arrival. Avoid leaving them in locations that might cause them to freeze or overheat depending on the time of year.

If more than 20% of worms are dead upon delivery, a video (or several pictures) must be taken within 2 hours of delivery and replacement worms will be shipped, or a refund applied.

Worm shipments may be delayed in instances of especially unfavorable weather.

What's this about Indian Blue Worms?

Many other large vendors sell a red worm composting mix, or contain a disclaimer about not having pure worm species. These vendors sell Indian Blue Worms mixed in with their Red Wigglers, or completely replacing Red Wigglers because they are easier to reproduce and put on weight. Indian Blue Worms are less favorable than the Red Wiggler for worm composting.

How Many Worms Should I Start With?

This is totally up to you. The less you start with the more money you save, but the slower it'll take to get the ball rolling. The more you start with the more it'll cost, but the quicker things will get going. A good starting place for a beginner is typically less than 2 pounds.

How Many Worms are in a Pound?

Red Wigglers do not get much bigger than just a few inches. A large Red Wiggler will only weigh as much as .8 grams on the higher end, but somewhere around .45 grams is much more common. This is where the 1,000 per pound - 454 grams - estimate comes from. 

How Fast Do Red Wigglers Eat?

There are many variables, but in ideal conditions the Red Wiggler can eat up to half of its body weight in food each day!

How Fast Do Red Wigglers Reproduce?

It is realistic to expect your worm population to double every 90 days. This may be quicker or slower depending on how well the worms are provided for. 

How Many Castings Will the Worms Make?

You can expect about 33% of the solids that worms eat to be converted into worm castings.

Can I Add Red Wigglers to My Garden?

You can do anything you want with your worms, but typically Red Wigglers do best in areas with high amounts of organic matter which is why they excel as composting worms. They are not the same as earth worker worms you might see when you are digging in your soil. For this reason its advisable to use Red Wigglers in a composting environment, but if your soil has lots of organic matter they could do very well there too. 

How Do Red Wigglers Do In Extreme Heat or Cold?

Its best to keep your worms indoors or in a garage where temperatures aren't extreme, but Red Wigglers can survive as low as 40 degrees or as high as 85 degrees. Keep in mind this is the temperature in their bin/soil which will typically be less hot or cold than the ambient temperature. If they must be outside, you can protect from extreme heat by keeping them in the shade and utilizing cold packs, and from extreme cold by keeping them in the sun, and insulating the bin as much as possible.

Additional Questions?

Any additional questions you have about composting with red wigglers can be found in the Mighty Worm Guides!