Compost in New York City

Why and how to compost while living in a New York City apartment...

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[111banana]

Can we add food scraps daily? Any good way to separate the compost from the newer stuff? Thanks.

[annechesky]

You can add food scraps daily, but it depends on the amount you are adding. The worms can only handle so much.

When you want to harvest your compost, move it all to one side of the bin and add more newspaper and food scraps to the opposite side, soon the worms will migrate to the food and your compost will be free of worms and ready to use in your garden.

[brokenbodies]

Really good video to encourage city composting. Mind if we show it at an Earth Day event at a DC church on April 20th?

[annechesky]

Go for it. Can you send me info on the event? I'd love to know more about it.

[efraim131]

Dear Anne;

Ive composted all organic residues of my apartment for more than a decade. However, I use just composting, since the worms wont eat food scraps or anything with salt or oil. They wont eat the peels of citric fruits as well, like orange or tangerines. I also noted that worms wont survive a week without new stuff. So, whenever I travelled, I had to look for new worms. For all these reasons, I prefered microorganisms composting. Now, even our baby's poop is going to the composting bin

[bluemystic7502]

@waltergoogins

This person makes more money than you do. You know how I know? Because you're the broke dick that can't afford a camera to post any vids. Keep trolling and posting negative comments, that's clearly a reflection of how miserable you are.

[waltergoogins]

It is illegal to place worm feces on trees in New York City. Cut that shit out and get a job, you hippie!

[YouAdamNazzkl0wn]

oops- is it requiem for a dream?

[YouAdamNazzkl0wn]

Is that music by David darling??

[crock703]

Anyone know if there is an easy way to get red worms for free (or the cost of shipping)?

[OutdoorBoundVideos]

I'm not sure where the liquid is coming from, but i know that my bin in my apartment just breaks down to "black gold" and not compost tea...there's no liquid and I will compost all different kinds of kitchen scraps...banana peels, egg shells, veggie scraps, etc. Maybe it depends on you're composting...

[Bongosmania]

I've been watching other videos about composting with worms... most of them insist on the liquid that drains off this composter. Why their worms produce liquid (compost tea) and yours doesn't?

I am confused...I made some videos on composting dry/green leaves/kitchen scraps, but people keep asking me what other option they have if they live in an apartment.

I am very interested in learning this other method. Thanks Outdoorboundvideos =)

[OutdoorBoundVideos]

the bins aren't producing compost tea, just plain compost. The tricky part is separating the compost from the worms, but you don't need a tray. you can simply move all the compost and worms to one side of the bin and then add new newspaper and food scraps to the other. the worms will migrate towards the new stuff and you can harvest the old.

[Bongosmania]

I love your video and if you don't mind I'd like to link it to my Blog. I have one question tho...aren't these bins supposed to have a tray of some sort to pick up the compost tea that worms produce?