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You can’t put that in a worm farm!

Common knowledge says that there are certain foods you should not feed to a worm farm. By searching around, we know that bread, meat products, onions, pineapple and other things are really bad for our squirms. Or are they? Worms have been eating organic material for a few years now, so it’s reasonable to say that they can probably eat all the things that we shouldn’t put in. However, the experiment is massively interesting to see played out. There’s a group of people on Facebook called Experimental Worm Fun . Their credo is: We have all heard you can and can’t or should and shouldn’t, as it applies to worm composting. One of our goals is to put those supposed limits to the test. Another of our goals is to share the testing and the results with anyone. One of the members has been experimenting with feeding onions to her worm bin. Lilia has been trying to safely compost the onions with worms. The Experimental Onion Bin Lilia is not only running the experiment, but she’s...