If you are looking at helping the environment then a worm farm is ideal for you. Everyone knows the benefit of recycling to help cut carbon emissions and waste, but not many would think of starting a worm farm.

Worm farms are a suitable alternative to a compost heap. If you only have a small garden but have a lot of green kitchen waste then a worm farm is ideal for you. Here are some more reasons for getting a worm farm:

• They will be more interesting to your children and will help them learn about recycling.
• They don't take up as much room as a composter
• They don't smell like a composter
• Worms produce composter quicker than a traditional composter
• Worms produce liquid compost which is also ideal for pot plants.

There are several types of worm farms that you can buy:

• Continuous flow worm farm: these are rather big, industrial style of worm farm. They are really efficient but can be expensive, and are better suited to a larger garden
• Stacking worm farm: basically boxes stacked on top of each other
• Single bucket worm farm: very simplistic, normally made form a converted dustbin or suchlike
• A DIY worm farm

Anyone can start a worm farm. They are great fun for the children and quite clean and smell free. It is an ideal way of recycling your kitchen waste and saving money on compost at the same time. You can buy your worms direct online, delivered to your door so you don't even have to dig the garden up looking for candidates! Kids love adding compost to the wormery and checking to see if they have worked their way through it. It is great fun for all the family.