The beauty of worm composting is that it is an easy to dispose of a variety of food wastes, which in turn provide you with a valuable and healthy fertilizer and soil conditioner. Earthworms will consume almost everything you feed them as long as you feed it to them at a rate they can easily consume. The word, almost, is important because while they can eat much they can't consume absolute everything. Some food wastes are too harsh for them or cannot be digested at all.
What Earthworms Love: The list is long and really does include nearly everything. Here are the general rules:
Green Material
• Almost all fruits and vegetables (with the exceptions)
• Vegetable and fruit peels and ends (cut into thumb-sized pieces for faster composting)
• Coffee grounds and filters
• Tea bags (even those with high tannin levels)
• Grains such as bread, cracker and cereal (including moldy and stale items)
• Eggshells (rinsed and crushed)Non-Greasy Leftovers
Brown Material
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• Leaves, dead plants, and trimmings from the garden (shredded or chopped)
• Grass clippings (dry)
• Newspapers and Brown Bags (shredded)
• Straw (chopped or shredded)Compost (dry)
What Earthworms Don't Love: There are just a few things to avoid feeding your worms: All citrus fruits:
These are often too acidic for the soft bodies of earthworms.
• Meat scraps: They will usually putrefy before they can be consumed by the worms.
They also attract vermin such as flies, maggots, rats, mice, skunks, and raccoons.
• Dairy products: Like meat dairy products will spoil well before the worms can eat them. These are sure to bring in lots of unwanted visitors.
• Sticks or woody materials. (Worms don't have teeth and these are too tough for soft-bodied creatures to digest.)
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