You might find newspaper strips or random scraps that haven’t fully composted yet, but that’s fine - they’ll continue to biodegrade. Simply remove the lid and any upper trays, and scoop all the castings into a bucket.įully finished compost resembles a fine, crumbly, black peat. Remember that new trays are always added on top, so you’ll want to harvest from your bottom tray. That means your Worm Factory 360 will continue to be a lean, mean, scrap-munching machine, even as you pull off one of your trays.

It typically takes around three months for your worms to finish a tray (if you don’t forget about it like I did) and you will likely have a second (or maybe a third) tray in the works by the time your first tray is ready. All those onion skins, banana peels, and cantaloupe rinds have magically been transformed into rich, black castings.Ĭollecting worm compost is a pretty straightforward process. Though I added my second tray in October, my first tray has been steaming and stewing since last August when Nature’s Footprint sent me their Worm Factory 360 to test… six busy months of being broken down by thousands of worms working their way through my garbage. (If you don’t own a pail like this for your kitchen, I highly recommend it - it beats running out to the vermicomposter every night to unload your scraps.) I finally got around to harvesting my worm compost, and luckily, my hub has been feeding our Wormville every week from the compost pail on our counter. And, uh… those are still not done.īut I digress. Blame the wedding… which I use as an excuse for every end-of-year procrastination, including my Christmas gifting, my garden digging, my oil changing, even my tax preparing. And then… I kinda forgot about them for a while. Back in October, I added a new tray to my Worm Factory 360 to keep all those ravenous red wigglers well fed.

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