Help! Advice needed: Worm farm for classroom

19d (edited) • Worm Bin Progress & Setups

Hi all! Sorry I've been MIA since Sep as work is kicking my behind 😆 However, I am back with a question I am thinking of starting a worm farm with my students as part of our science unit. However, I have two problems:

1) I need to make it small as I don't have a lot of space.

2) I also don't have a lot of worms anyway as I only bought 1/4 lb for my farm. Unfortunately I cannot buy more, as we were not given any budget to buy anything outside of Staples, and last I checked, Staples did not sell worms 😂 I've also already spent over $300 of my own money for my classroom so I would prefer not to spend more. I don't mind taking some worms out of my personal farm for my students but I also don't want to remove too many worms and slow its progress.

SOO my questions are: What size bin would you recommend for a classroom? And what would be the minimum number of worms that I would need in order for our bin to be able to see progress or at least some kind of movement within one or two months?

Worst case, I just don't do a worm farm and maybe wait until my worm farm is bigger to do it with a different class in the future.

Thank you experts!!!

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Help! Advice needed: Worm farm for classroom