Recycle Your Waste. Revive Your Soil.

Fully Removable Zipper-Free Bottom!

Create organic fertilizer inside or outside your home or apartment using nothing more than common household waste like newsprint, cardboard, and food waste.

You can also purchase a discounted bundle with the accessories needed to get started:

2 x bricks of Urban Worm Coco Coir bedding
2 x Urban Worm Blankets
1 x Urban Worm Thermometer
1 set of 6 frame cross straps for better stability on uneven surfaces.

$139.00

Fully Removable Zipper-Free Bottom!

Create organic fertilizer inside or outside your home or apartment using nothing more than common household waste like newsprint, cardboard, and food waste.

You can also purchase a discounted bundle with the accessories needed to get started:

2 x bricks of Urban Worm Coco Coir bedding
2 x Urban Worm Blankets
1 x Urban Worm Thermometer
1 set of 6 frame cross straps for better stability on uneven surfaces.

Can you collect tea from the Urban Worm Bag?

A properly-run Urban Worm Bag should not be producing excess liquid, which is actually called "leachate." But if you want to collect this liquid out of the bottom, just operate the Urban Worm Bag with the bottom fully removed and place a tray underneath to catch it.
Do I need tools to assemble the Urban Worm Bag?

No. Assembly is simple. No glue or tools are needed.
How big is the Urban Worm Bag?

When fully assembled, the Urban Worm Bag is 27.5-in x 27.5-in by 31-in tall. It's a large worm bin when compared to most other worm bins.

ABOUT CONTINUOUS FLOW

How Continuous Flow Works

Continuous flow worm bins allow for worm-free harvests. There is never an emptying of the Urban Worm Bag.

The top layer of the Urban Worm Bag features freshly-added food waste and bedding. Worms tend to stay near these top layers.
Decomposition by worms and microbe continues in the middle of the Bag.
The bottom of a mature Urban Worm Bag features ready-to-harvest worm castings that will be ready for use in your garden or grow operation. Worms keep working in upper layers so there should not be a need to separate them out.

ASSEMBLY & STARTUP

It's super simple.

Your Urban Worms Bag will arrive with 12 male tubes, 8 short female tubes, 4 long female tubes, 8 corner connectors, and an instruction manual.

CONNECT THE TUBES

Connect the 12 male tubes to each of the female tubes. This will create 4 vertical supports and 8 shorter horizontal supports.

CREATE THE BASE

Connect 4 shorter horizontal supports with your plastic 3-way connectors.

INSERT VERTICAL SUPPORTS

Insert your 4 longer vertical supports into the bottom 3-way connectors.

INSERT TUBES INTO URBAN WORM BAG

Insert horizontal supports through the fabric tunneling on the Urban Worm Bag. Connect with plastic 3-way connectors.

PRESS BAG ONTO VERTICAL SUPPORTS

This completes your assembly!

GET TO WORK!

Start your Urban Worm Bag with two bricks of low-salt Urban Worm Coco Coir or other form of carbon-rich bedding like shredded cardboard, paper, peat moss, or a combo!

Turning Food Waste Into Food for the Soil

GO EASY AT FIRST!

Any worm bin needs time for the worm and microbe ecosystem to develop.

In the first few weeks, be very conservative with your feedings, adding only a cup or two each week until you see the waste is being broken down easily.

Stop adding food waste and add bedding if you encounter foul odors, gnats, or fruit flies.

STAY SAFE WITH FEEDINGS

Stick with non-dairy, non-meat food wastes.

Worms love banana peels, apple cores, all sorts of melons & nearly all vegetable waste.

Food waste is incredibly high in water content, so make sure to add dry bedding with each feeding. For a feeding, we recommend 2x the volume of bedding to food waste.

Some users like to layer their food waste and bedding. Others like to mix them together.

Pssst....we like to mix them together!

GO EASY AT FIRST!

Any worm bin needs time for the worm and microbe ecosystem to develop.

In the first few weeks, be very conservative with your feedings, adding only a cup or two each week until you see the waste is being broken down easily.

Stop adding food waste and add bedding if you encounter foul odors, gnats, or fruit flies.

STAY SAFE WITH FEEDINGS

Stick with non-dairy, non-meat food wastes.

Worms love banana peels, apple cores, all sorts of melons & nearly all vegetable waste.

Food waste is incredibly high in water content, so make sure to add dry bedding with each feeding. For a feeding, we recommend 2x the volume of bedding to food waste.

Some users like to layer their food waste and bedding. Others like to mix them together.

Pssst....we like to mix them together!

IT'S HARVEST TIME!

After 4 to 6 months *and* when your Urban Worm Bag is about 75% full, it's time to harvest! Remove the patented bottom of the "UWB" and get those castings!

RELEASE BUCKLE

Simply release each of the 8 buckles on the bottom of your Urban Worm Bag.

REMOVE VELCRO

Simply pull on the bottom of each of the 4 Velcro tabs on the bottom to fully remove the bottom.

LOOSEN THE DRAWSTRING

This will open up the interior liner. (Don't worry...everything won't fall out!)

USE THE REMOVABLE BOTTOM AS A CATCH

Remove the patented bottom and place underneath the Urban Worm Bag to begin harvest. Hint....bumping the sides helps to loosen compacted vermicompost!

Your first harvest may be very wet, maybe a little wormy, and will contain unprocessed bedding. Just send that material back into the top!

Subsequent harvests will have better texture and should be worm-free.

FEED. YOUR. SOIL.

Use castings as a top dress, a side dress, or mix into growing media at a 10% substitution rate, by volume.

The microbes will help cycle nutrients, aid in water retention, promote faster germination, suppress pests and pathogens, and will simply feed your soil.

Your garden or grow operation will thank you!

CHECK OUT THE MANUAL!

Don't just learn about the product.

Learn the Process.

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A CUSTOMER SERVICE COMPANY FIRST

The Urban Worm Company started as a blog to help new vermicomposters. So at our core, we are a service business, helping people to recycle their organic waste into incredible soil.

LEARN FROM US

We don't just sell a product. We teach you how to use it.

VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS

A retired Air Force officer, Steve operates on an "Integrity First" principle!

AUTHENTIC

We don't just sell *to* vermicomposters. We *are* vermicomposters!

CUSTOMER FIRST

Incredibly fast, responsive customer service from real people, not robots!

MESSAGE FROM THE OWNER

Hi! I may be the last person you'd think would be doing something like this.

I'm a 23-year Air Force veteran and airline pilot. My day job is as a pilot for Southwest Airlines, whose past President once said "We are a customer service company who also flies airplanes."

I've adopted a similar mantra here at the Urban Worm Company where my first focus is educating vermicomposters and providing ridiculously good customer service.

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Just wanted to let you know that I have been feeding bokashi to my worms in the Urban Worm Bag and they absolutely love it. And the apple cores were gone in no time.

I have tried so many other worm systems and this one takes the cake. Thank you for your product.”

- Laura J
Portland, Oregon

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“I've looked at a lot of worm bins and went with the Urban Worm Company for many reasons. Positive reviews, convenience, design quality, and affordability, expertise, and customer service.

I'm so happy to be a member of "Urban Worm Nation! LOL”

- Andrea H.

Murfreesboro, TN

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Good work, Steve. I've had your Urban Worm Bag for two years now and cannot say enough about it. There is zero smell or fuss and my worms are just as healthy now as when I started. The temperature is always around 70 degrees and they send out cocoons as fast as they can!”

- Bruce J.

Lancaster, PA