Worm Composting Starter Kit

Small Worm Composting Starter Kit

Our Small Worm Composting Starter Kit contains the materials you need to get your small to mid-sized worm bin off to a great start! Introducing worms to a well set up habitat will reduce the stress on the worms and ease their transition into their new home and set your bin up for success.  

NOTE: Our current starter kits include Living Material Plus inoculum, not a specific weight of Red Wigglers. Be sure to read the "Living Material Plus vs Bulk Worms" section further down so you are clear on the difference.

The Small Worm Composting Starter Kit includes the following: 

• Living Material Plus (4 L) - contains Red Wiggler worms and cocoons (pdf product guide) 
• 1/2 pound Hemp Tow (pdf product guide)
• 1/2 pound Shredded Cardboard (pdf product guide)
• 1 brick of Coco Coir - 625g (pdf product guide)
• 100g pH Buffer/Grit (pdf product guide)
• 50g Biochar (pdf product guide)
• 1 Worm Blanket (pdf product guide)
• Printed Guide:  Caring for your Red Wigglers - A Beginner’s Guide for Successful Vermicomposting.

Recommended bins for the Small Worm Composting Starter Kit include: small to mid-sized worm bins such as: Urbalive Compact Worm Farm, Urbalive Worm Farm, a small DIY worm bin or other small worm farms. 

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Large Worm Composting Starter Kit

Our Large Worm Composting Starter Kit contains the materials you need to get your mid to large-sized worm bin off to a great start! Introducing worms to a well set up habitat will reduce the stress on the worms and ease their transition into their new home and set your bin up for success.  

The Large Worm Composting Starter Kit includes the following: 

• Living Material Plus (4 L) - contains Red Wiggler worms and cocoons (pdf product guide) 
• 1 pound Hemp Tow (pdf product guide)
• 1 pound Shredded Cardboard (pdf product guide)
• 2 bricks of Coco Coir - 625g each (pdf product guide)
• 500g pH Buffer/Grit (pdf product guide)
• 2 Liters Biochar (pdf product guide)
• 3 Worm Blankets (pdf product guide)
• Printed Guide:  Caring for your Red Wigglers - A Beginner’s Guide for Successful Vermicomposting.

Recommended bins for the Large Worm Composting Starter Kit include: mid to larger-sized worm bins such as:  Urbalive Worm Farm, Urban Worm Bag, Worm Hut, and other mid to large sized worm farms. 1 pound of worms is also a great addition to a backyard composting system such as the GeoBin or SpeediBin. 

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Living Material Plus vs Bulk Worms

Our starter kits now include a system inoculum called "Living Material Plus" (you can learn more about it if you follow the resource page link shared below). This is 4 L of rich, decomposed material containing lots of beneficial composting organisms, including Red Wiggler Worms and cocoons. We also include an additional 50 "breeder" (adult) Red Wigglers. This inoculum mix can be used to grow your own composting worm population (and it is a very healthy, natural, and effective way to do so), BUT you will definitely need to be more patient than if you order worms by weight (e.g. 1/2 lb  / 1 lb etc).

NOTE: If you order bulk worms from someone else, our kits are still perfect to pair with them, since the Living Material is very effective for helping worms get used to a new environment (makes it feel much more like "home").

To learn more about Living Material Plus please refer to our Living Material Resource page.

Learn more about vermicomposting.