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  What is sifting?
After 3 months of feeding the worms grass, leaves, cardboard and other organic items it is time to sift. This is where we separate the worms form the castings.
We use 1/8inch screen on an old grain sifter, see picture below.
We slowly put the entire contents of the bunkers or totes into one end of the sifter which  slowly turns the products so the small items, which are the casting, fall though the screen into the catch bins.
The casting need to dry before they can be bagged, if not the casting will clump together and will not spread easily.
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| The lady in the picture is Carol Haberl. Carol and LeRoy are our partners in the worm farm. Terry and LeRoy are in two of the pictures together. |
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We sifted on the 27th of March. It went very well. Our worms have multiplied quite nicely. We sifted the 41 - thirty-one gallon totes. Out of that we got roughly 2,400lbs of castings. The casting have to dry so it will be less than 2400lbs. We have a dehumidifier running plus some fans to help circulate the air to help dry the castings. That should take about 2 weeks of stirring daily to get them dry.
We have 4 bunkers going. We filled the bunkers up with news papers on the 22nd of March. We put the news papers through a hammer mill. The news papers looked like insulation when they came out. We spent the whole day grinding the papers and spraying them to get the wet enough for the worms. We all were covered with the shredded news papers. We had grey hair! The ground up papers covered us head to toe. We had to wear masks to keep it out of our lungs. Sorry no pictures…. I wasn’t thinking that day! We were a sight! The pictures would have been funny! It was cold and was raining, plus snowing off and on that day. Our only thoughts were was how to stay warm!
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