What a great oppertunity!

Contact the e-mail list of your community garden plot and offer free vermicomposting worms. That would be real community and you would get to know your fellow gardeners and start the sharing ball rolling. Mayby 5 will reply. Give 10 pounds of the bins wormy contents to each of 5 very happy new vermicomposters and keep 10 pounds for your boyfriend to move. Oh, and stop feeding them now in preperation for moving day.

I completely agree with equinoxequinox!!

I'm in So Cal and desperate to find someone to share their worms so I can start bins for our school. People would be thrilled to take it off your hands, and appreciative to not have to pay $3/50 worms!

Once the weather warms up you can use sunlight to move the worms. They move a way from light. I put the finished bin in a sunny spot and skim off an inch or 2 of compost at a time. Eventually the worms are concentrated at the bottom and are easy to move.

Time to add a 2nd bin on top of the first one (see link below).

The number of bins you need in a stackable system depends on how much kitchen waste you produce - I have 4 in my system now. It sounds like you're producing more than you can process in a single bin. You'll find that managing a multi-bin composter is much easier than a single bin because the worms have a much larger and more diverse environment to live. Just be sure to cover any exposed compost with shredded paper to minimize flies.

Here is a link that might be useful: OSCR composter

Most of your worms will be in the top few inches of material...stuff that has the choicest food in it. Scrape that off and put it into another bin (is this a standard 18 gal. tote?). That would be the bin you keep when you move.

The material towards the bottom should be good enough to use as vermicompost for the garden. Since you have several weeks, I'd suggest the onion bag harvesting method (see link below). Repeat the process a few times to harvest most of the worms. If you really have tons of worms, then give them away as has been suggested. Otherwise just add them to the new bin.

Once most of the worms have been harvested, the remaining vermicompost can be put into a cardboard box and left for the community garden to use. You should take some of the vermicompost to use in your new garden...maybe a small box or bag.

Good luck. It sounds like you did a great job with your first wormery.

Andrew

Here is a link that might be useful: onion bag harvesting method