{"id":4587,"date":"2008-10-06T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2008\/10\/06\/wormtopia\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:02:20","slug":"wormtopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2008\/10\/06\/wormtopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wormtopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casie likes the new vermicomposter and the worms &#8212; all of whom are named &quot;Stan&quot; &#8212; seem to be happy (and multiplying). <\/p>\n<p>These are red-wigglers &#8212; the best for vermicomposting. They&#8217;ll eat<br \/>\nanything that was once living &#8212; paper, coffee grounds, veggies,<br \/>\nflowers, sawdust&#8230; some even say a telephone book&#8230; and the worm-poop<br \/>\nis good for the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, we had a single black bin, but we got this one at the local Elephant Pharmacy and gave the old one (and 1\/2 the worms&#8230; of 1\/2 the Stans) to our neighbors Kyle and Sarah. If an adult is having this much fun, some 4th graders would be lovin&#8217; it for sure. Locally, you can get your worms from &quot;the worm dude&quot; (search for it on Craigslist &#8212; he travels from farmers market to market) or you can find them online&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redneckmodern.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/10\/06\/dsc00046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/redneckmodern.typepad.com\/redneckmodern\/images\/2008\/10\/06\/dsc00046.jpg\" title=\"Dsc00046\" alt=\"Dsc00046\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/redneckmodern.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/10\/06\/dsc00045.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/redneckmodern.typepad.com\/redneckmodern\/images\/2008\/10\/06\/dsc00045.jpg\" title=\"Dsc00045\" alt=\"Dsc00045\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/redneckmodern.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/10\/06\/dsc00047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/redneckmodern.typepad.com\/redneckmodern\/images\/2008\/10\/06\/dsc00047.jpg\" title=\"Dsc00047\" alt=\"Dsc00047\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casie likes the new vermicomposter and the worms &#8212; all of whom are named &quot;Stan&quot; &#8212; seem to be happy (and multiplying). These are red-wigglers &#8212; the best for vermicomposting. They&#8217;ll eat anything that was once living &#8212; paper, coffee grounds, veggies, flowers, sawdust&#8230; some even say a telephone book&#8230; and the worm-poop is good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-modern-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wormtopia - Red Neck Modern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2008\/10\/06\/wormtopia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wormtopia - Red Neck Modern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Casie likes the new vermicomposter and the worms &#8212; all of whom are named &quot;Stan&quot; &#8212; seem to be happy (and multiplying). 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