Maria and I got up early to attend a lecture by Bill Richmond, founder of the Adirondack Worm Farm. We got excited about the benefits of composting worms in the house to eat garbage and creative fertilizer for our gardens and garden beds.
His lecture was fascinating, I learned a lot.
Alas, it didn’t work out. It was and is a great idea but takes more time and attention than expected. For example, Bill explained that worms die in temperatures lower than 40 degrees and above 80 or 90. Many foods are good for them, and lots aren’t. We are both working hard here day and night, and we need more time to monitor the worms closely and carefully or keep the temperatures in the house within fluctuating temperatures., which there always are.
We don’t need dying worms in our life. Most nights, both of us are exhausted as it is. We are learning to pare things down. I’m considering a plan to stop credit card donations and ask blog readers to continue their generous contributions to my blog and the Army Of Good via Paypal, Venmo, or checks. It won’t take effect if this happens while we figure it all out.
P.S. Credit card usage rates and security demands are getting so expensive that more than half of the contributions go to fees, not to my blog, the Mansion, or the refugee art students. I can’t afford it, and I want the money to go where it ought to go, for blog support or for Mansion and refugee support.
Almost everyone has access to Paypal and Venmo now, and those who don’t can mail their contributions—details to come if and when it happens. I’m talking to my website designers on Tuesday to see how this can work.
Bill Richmond.
Bill had a whole house, and the idea of using worms for composting was good. We’ll return to it in the summer and watch the concept. I’m disappointed. I was going to take this one on. It’s a good idea, but for us, too many things can go wrong, like learning that rats love worms and are happy to chew their way through plastic tubs to get them.
We are also busy every minute of the day. We don’t want to be killing worms.
