Yes, freezing fruits and even some vegetables (leafy ones) that contain a great deal of water internally, will cause the water to greatly expand as it crystallizes into ice... this expansion will rupture cell walls and after thawing out, the watery contents along with all the other stuff from within the cells can now spill out... translation = become mushy and more accessible to the bacteria and worms. This is why I hate to freeze excess berries for later eating... yuk! The problem with freezing excess worm food for us is lack of sufficient freezer space. I pretty much divide up all the worm food amoung the bins regardless of how much food per bin that end's up being. So far, I've not manage to overfeed them to the point of harming the worms... I think the key is to put all the food in one part of the bin so the worms can escape any bad effects from overfeeding and return again when everything's just getting "ripe" for the munching.

My system is a worm factory with multiple trays at work so I dont worry about putting too much in the feeding tray. If there is a problem they can move to one of the lower trays till better conditions return.

I really like the practice of freezing the worm food to help break it down for the little guys but honestly we've been shopping at costco a lot this past year and as a result absolutely have no freezer room to spare... so we just dump the whole load into the bins at one time.

Hey hummersteve... is it because you don't know the words or do you own one of those tank vehicles?

I got in the habit of freezing my food scraps till trash day before I ever had a worm bin. Because I lived in a small apartment in a warm climate, I found it helped keep my garbage from getting that "garbagey" smell. I still freeze the food scraps primarily for that reason, even though I could just as easily go down and put the food scraps right in the worm bin as they're generated - I don't want to dig around and bother the worms all the time (nor do I want to constantly climb up and down the basement stairs), so I usually put the freezer container contents in the bin twice per week.

Monomer-- Sorry you lost me.

I can say they knocked out my thawed pumpkin in record time a couple of days it seems. So Im thawing out another gallon freezer bag.

"Hummer" Steve... get it? don't know the words? or owner of a tank vehicle?

I'll bet you can toss it in frozen... they'll just avoid it until it fully thaws, once the bacteria begin munching that's the sign the cafeteria is now opened to the worms.

I always thaw the frozen stuff to get rid of extra liquid.

I have been known to put the contents of the scraps bucket into the worm bin before they're fully thawed. There's plenty of room for the worms to squirm away from the chilly area, but it's often awkward because the frozen scraps are in the shape of a bucket-sized scrapsicle, and I can't always cram that down into the available space in the WF tray until it thaws. Less of a problem if you have a bigger, wider worm bin I guess.

As a rule I dont get any drainage in my factory 360 but using the pumpkin I get quite a bit of drainage which Im not used to and neither are the worms but I guess they can deal with it.