>>978913Essentially yes but it's slightly more complicated than that. You skip the dirt - they want to live in a carbon based bedding. I like to mix shredded newspaper, cardboard scraps, and leaves from fall. Moisture level is kinda important, bedding should be just moist enough to squeeze about a single drop of water out of a handful. From there you can just start feeding vegetable and fruit waste (dairy and meat are not imposible but smell horrible and attract rodents).
When you first start out you'll probably buy a pound of worms or 1000 worms. I'd recommend buying by weight because 1000 teeny tiny worms will not be very useful at first. You can get them shipped to you pretty reliably as long as it isn't super hot - do it in spring if you are thinking about it or buy locally. They will eat between 0.5-1x their bodyweight in food a week and will double population every couple months.
Their castings are not excessively nutrient rich as per compost however they contain an extreme diversity of soil flora (fungi, bacteria, etc) and micronutrients as well as some N/P/K which varies by what you put into it
>>978906If you feel that way you don't have to talk to me
