{"id":685,"date":"2009-07-17T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=685"},"modified":"2009-07-17T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:02:09","slug":"new-lows-in-urban-homesteading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/new-lows-in-urban-homesteading\/","title":{"rendered":"New lows in urban homesteading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-686\" title=\"kombucha\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_1203-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"kombucha\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_1203-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_1203-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The worms have died. As has the kombucha.<\/p>\n<p>Now, kombucha mothers are like zucchini &#8212; some people can&#8217;t give &#8217;em away fast enough. So while I am deflated by this failure at yet another project dubbed &#8220;idiot-proof&#8221; (and don&#8217;t even talk to me about no-knead bread) I&#8217;m pretty sure I can start over and recoup my losses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eisenia_foetida\">Red wigglers<\/a>, on the other hand, are in short supply right now. The <a href=\"http:\/\/spontaneousvegetation.net\/greenhouses-of-hope\/\">mission worm population<\/a> is dangerously low and <a href=\"http:\/\/sevensapphires.net\/about.html\">Sayre<\/a> won&#8217;t mail order me some more until I figure out what went wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want any more worms to die in vain,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But I am stumped.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too hot in the bin, nor too dry. I was perhaps feeding them a little haphazardly, but they certainly never lacked for food. I did not feed them acids (tomatoes, citrus) nor meat (which leads to maggots). I fed them a balanced diet of greens, banana peels, eggshells, and coffee grounds. In fact, that&#8217;s the only thing I can imagine went wrong. Too much coffee? Were my worms caffeinated to death?<\/p>\n<p>Worm experts: call me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worms have died. As has the kombucha. Now, kombucha mothers are like zucchini &#8212; some people can&#8217;t give &#8217;em away fast enough. So while I am deflated by this failure at yet another project dubbed &#8220;idiot-proof&#8221; (and don&#8217;t even talk to me about no-knead bread) I&#8217;m pretty sure I can start over and recoup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/new-lows-in-urban-homesteading\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-urban-agriculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}