This is an old message, but a good question.
If you already have worm bins going, and you have plenty of organic material to provide, what you need to do is scale up.
When you get one bin with lots of worms in them, start another bin by dividing the contents into two bins, and let them reproduce again. Then when the worm population in those bins looks good, do it again. Now you have 4 bins. Keep doing that until you have enough bins to keep up with your organic material output. The worms will multiply up to whatever your output is.
The only problem is, you can't rush it. If you try to make 5 pounds of worms consume what would feed 20 pounds of worms, you'll end up with a mess. So, take your 5 pounds of worms, split them to 2.5 pounds each, and feed a little more than what 2.5 pounds of worms can eat, say, what 3 pounds of worms can eat. You are processing an extra pound of organic material, and in a few weeks or so, you'll have 3 pounds of worms per bins and you can then put in enough to feed 3.25 or 3.5 pounds of worms. By keeping just barely ahead of the population growth, you can process a little bit more and soon, you will meet your processing needs.
This might take a year or two.
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