BIN: Many holes: sides, underneath and top. Opaque
container that keeps light out. Cover lower 50% holes with recycled screen. Soddering
iron (5 bucks) melts holes easily.  

LOCATION: Dark place that gets airflow. We
keep our in our garage. We rarely close the container completely. Leave the top
shifted open. They won’t escape if they’re comfortable. We raise the container
up off the floor with a crate or bricks to promote air flow.

BEDDING: Bottom
50% is bedding. Ripped up cardboard (small pieces) and shredded paper work
great. The cardboard ensures air circulates. Then we add a handful of garden
dirt that contains no chemicals. Worms need grit but not the dirt to live in.
Add the worms on top of the bedding with grit. Top the worms with more bedding
so the container is almost full. Yep, we use a lot of bedding. Keep everything
as wet as a wrung out sponge by misting occasionally if needed. If it’s
dripping, it’s off.

FEEDING: We don’t overfeed. A handful is good to start, wait
a few days and check to see if they like it. Overfeeding can make them unhappy
and too much citrus or fruit in general calls the flies. The food should be in
the middle of the two layers of bedding. the more chopped up the better.

Well, too
much info in one comment but that’s how we do it. We’re no experts but having
success and learning – hope some of this helps a bit. We’re in the process of updating our video and plan to
add more pics of our most successful worm bins soon. In the meantime, here’s a
link to the video that we made: http://www.homegrownfun.com/category/worms-composting/

There’s a
few corrections we’re going to make such as clarifying that the extra cover under
the bin catches liquid and this is not technically compost tea. There’s a
debate out there that if your food is not converted into
compost, the liquid that leaches from the bin is probably not really tea but leachate
– like gross landfill dew.  We don’t get any moisture dripping from the bottom but imagine some folks do.