Keep a container in your kitchen and dump it into the compost every day. Avoid meats and sweets and greasy foods because they attract pests. Plants like animal wastes , such as carbon dioxide that animals exhale, and manure which they excrete. Manure speeds up and enriches the development of compost. Avoid manure from any animal that eats meat.
Good manure comes from chickens, cows , horses , pigs , sheep and goats.
The terms vermicompost and worm castings have been used interchangeably to identify the resulting worm worked material produced by earthworms. While the term castings identifies the worm's excreta, or worm manure as it has been called, the term vermicompost allows for the presence of material left undigested by earthworms in the harvested product. As an agricultural activity, the practice of vermiculture results in production not only of earthworms but earthworm by-products and castings. In the sense that cows produce milk and bees produce honey, earthworms produce castings as a marketable product. An Ecosystems home vermicomposter in use.