Ok, here is an easy and cheap thing you can do to improve the comfort and efficiency of your house in the winter. This applies mostly to houses with older windows and doors, but it will also improve newer ones as well by letting less heat escape. A plastic film that is like a shrink wrap and often known as “Window Film” can be applied to your drafty windows and doors. It can be purchased at mostly any home improvement store and is relatively cheap. It will more than pay …

How To Make A Worm Bin
Items You Will Need:

10 gallon rubbermaid container
X-Acto Knife
8 kitchen sink scrap catchers
5 pounds of Shredded newspaper
Fine Wire
Hose Washers with screens
4 feet to elevate your worm bin
Red wiggler worms
How To Build Your Wormbin

Cut 4 holes the size of your drain guards in the top of your bin
Cut 2 holes the size of your drain guards on each long side of your worm bin
Attach the drain guards with fine wire
Cut 8 holes the size of your hose screens in the bottom of the bin

Fill the bin with …

Ahh, the art of composting in your kitchen! All year long for those who live in colder climates, you can compost kitchen scraps without even leaving the house. Red wigglers devour veggie scraps and the resulting worm poop makes some of the best houseplant food you can get. Beyond that, you have a colony of little red wigglers to pass off to friends so they can start their own vermiculture project as well. Oh yeah, and for you fisherman out there…..red wigglers are one of the …