Instructions / Assembly

Feeding your worms
• After a week you can start to add a small amount of food scraps, about a handful every
few days. Gradually increase this as you notice the worms eating more. Once it’s
established and the worms are breeding, they will consume more food scraps. Be careful
not to overfeed them. Uneaten food will begin to smell and attract unwanted pests.
• When adding food scraps it’s important not to spread it out covering the entire area.
Start in a section and when you add new scraps put them in a different section working
your way around the farm.
• It’s a good idea to cover any new food scraps added with their bedding that is already in
the worm farm or some compost from your compost bin.
• Cut food into small pieces. This will make it easier for the worms to eat.
• To keep your worms happy make sure you are giving them some diversity with their food.
• Worms will change with the season, you may need to feed them more in the warmer
months and less in the cooler months.
• Fruit scraps
• Vegetable scraps
• Teabags
• Coffee grounds
• Crushed eggshells
• Small amounts of bread
• Small amounts of cooked rice or pasta
• Moist cardboard & newspaper
• Onion
• Garlic
• Chilli
• Dairy
• Uncooked potato skins
• Citrus fruit or peel
• Meat, bones or fish
• Oils or grease
MAZE WORM FARM
Things I CAN add Things I CAN’T add
Adding your second working tray
• It’s time to add your second working tray once the first is full.
Make sure the second tray comes in contact with the
bedding in the first allowing the worms to travel freely into it.
• You can add food scraps directly into the second working
tray but it will speed up the process by adding a small
mount of organic soil, compost or existing bedding first.
• Stop feeding your worms for a week before adding the
second working tray to make the worms nice and hungry.
This will entice them to go into the second tray once
added.