maxcaviar said:geez, i hope that works. picking through a pile of compost was not the sort of thing i was hoping for ;) i did add some more food today and was pretty shocked at how many baby worms were in there today. i guess that's gotta be a good sign, at least for now.
I have not seen a lot of migration in my bins either, but still, when I add a tray of bedding at the top, it gets plenty of worms in it, so some are moving up! I have 5 trays populated, and there are a lot of worms in the bottom tray, and even in the base. I figure if you let those worms in the lowest tray go with the castings (to a garden or container) then you are doing natural selection against non-migratory worms, and in favor of migratory worms, so over time, you might find fewer and fewer worms in the lowest tray. I shall see!
I never harvest trays with paper still in them. I don't think of that as finished compost. The worms eat paper and coir.
