wormery

British  

/ ˈwɜːmərɪ /

noun

1. a piece of apparatus, having a glass side or sides, in which worms are kept for study

2. a container in which worms are kept, esp one in which they consume household waste and convert it into compost

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Example Sentences

If you want to find out more about fruit and vegetable peel and what to do with it, there is lots of advice online including help on how to use peels for composting, to feed a wormery or incorporation into recipes.

From Salon

The farms also have a wormery in their middle to compost household waste, the castings of which can then be used to fertilise the crops, helping to keep inputs low but still organic, he says.

From The Guardian

That’s the driveway where someone once discarded an entire wormery: four stories of perforated plastic through which my compost worms now romp happily among apple peelings.

From The New Yorker

He also likes his "new birthday wormery".

From The Guardian