Earthworm Housing or Earthworm Bedding:

Earthworms in most area in the United States require no special housing other than natural or artificial shade. Some artificially heated bedding is required for extreme cold areas, although earthworms normally can stand extreme cold except frost.

In nature, earthworm live happily in any decomposing compost heap, garbage dump, or decaying vegetable or animal waste such as manure of sheep, cow, rabbit, horse, goat or poultry.

Earthworm Feeds:

Earthworm likes to eats, and will eat most decaying organic matter such as food scraps found in garbage damps, decaying fallen leafs and wood particles that are small enough for the earthworm to consume, decomposing manures from animals that are found in nature.

In commercial earthworm farms, some considers rabbit manure mixed with the wasted feed beneath the hutches of rabbituary as one of the finest earthworm feeds. Rabbituaries solve the problems created by rabbit droppings that created bad odors and fly-breeding, earthworms cleaning of the rabbituaries are obtained by stocking earthworms in pits under the rabbit hutches to turn the rabbit droppings into odorless humus which are treasured by organic gardeners, flower growers, nurseries, organic farmers, garden supply stores and farmers in soil building.

Other manure such as horse manure, sheep manure, goat manure, poultry manure, cardboard, wood and paper pulp, compost and waste products. Commercial feeds as well as sewer sludge are also used for earthworm feed.