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Bringing food production home

Hi everyone,
I looked for answers to this question but I haven't found anything that really answers it. Sorry if I am repeating a previously answered question.

I built a hutch for two a of my Silver Fox rabbits (I'll add a pic in case you need to see what I'm talking about) and decided to put a raised bed directly under it to keep the dogs away from the droppings. I decided to turn that bed into a worm bed and use them to compost the manure and veggie scraps from the kitchen. I was wondering if I could get some ideas as to how I could best set things up and manage the worm castings. It seems like most people recommend the plastic worm farm setups that have multiple tiers and holes and what not and seeing how this is just a raised bed, I'm not sure how I will handle it.

Any info or advice or video recommendations on how to do this is greatly appreciated as I'm obviously very green in this area. Thanks again.

I would split the bed in two using a material that the worms can migrate through and put separate light proof lids on each half with an irrigation system to keep them moist. When one half gets full and the other half is half full you can open the lid on the full half and turn off the irrigation to that half and the sunlight and lack of moisture should force the worms to migrate to the half full side so you can dig out the full side.

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Suggest you also do a search on youtube as I may have seen something like you are suggesting. More photos the better. Cheers

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