Worm Gardening Tip: Harvesting

So you have spent the time and effort to make a worm garden, now how do you separate the worms from your black gold?

A simple method is to build your worm garden so that there is a removable board or other object separating approximately one quarter of the box from the rest. Fill the larger portion of the box, leaving an open space in the other end of the box.

When the worms are ready to harvest, place fresh food and bedding / dirt in the open end of the box. Next, remove the board. Over a few weeks the worms will migrate to the fresh food. Now the nutrient rich worm dirt can easily be harvested.