A worm hotel for EVERY home!
We're changing the world one worm farm at a time! Be weird with us?
Imagine having a million workers working 24/7 JUST for you in a factory. Imagine the output possible…
Imagine that you didn’t have to pay them, in fact they pay you! 🫨 🫢
Imagine they didn’t begrudge doing the work, in fact their very reason for being alive was to do that job…just for you! But that’s not all….their very existence is actually to save the future of humanity and no one really knows about them?
Day in, day out they do this work for you… not asking for much just some nourishing vibrantly colourful food and water…
Well that’s EXACTLY what a worm hotel does for you.
While you’re asleep, while you’re at work, while you’re playing with your children millions of hard working worms turn all of your kitchen food waste (and other things) into YUMMY, nourishing compost and plant fertiliser.
Every.single.day!
They do it for us… we have 6! We have had one 8 years and introduced the other 5 just this year. 1
It starts with us… all of us.
If every home in the UK had a worm farm, I don’t know how many waste disposal trucks or brown bins we could take off the road because that’s maths and I don’t care so much about maths…2
I care about regenerating the soil. Soil erosion on planet earth is one of the biggest unspoken ecological disasters currently unfolding.
When you were a child, you might have noticed neighbours tending to their small gardens. An array of beautiful flowers each working in synchronicity with each other. A dream like memory.
As a teenager a lot of these lawns got turned into block paved carparks (we count them as we drive up my old man’s old street).
Now as adults, we’re seeing garden spaces being re-engineered into the form of plastic “maintenance free'“ plastic lawns. Don’t even get me started on leaf blowers!!
The trouble is…
We all think our little garden spaces don’t amount to that much in the grand scheme of things. It’s a place for order and to be tidy so we reflect back our hearts and minds aren’t as chaotic as we’d like? I could tell you a story of the gardener that was employed to wipe bird poo from leaves with baby wipes? But not today!
Staying on task, what we forget is it’s the COLLECTIVE power of HOW we use garden spaces across the UK and the billions across the world.
Nobody has studied private gardens in terms of soil health (as far as we know) but they have been studied for bio diversity for water/ aquatic pond life.
Did you know Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees?
In the UK, the majority of plant species including rare species were found in private ponds. Including the highest numbers of fresh water rare plant species were found in private spaces. Research suggest that local garden ponds make a bigger contribution to the biodiversity of life than many larger bodies of water. The little guys get a look in. Collectively, ponds are the richest fresh water habitat available. 3. We have two here; one was built in lockdown as a memorial to a dear friend we lost back then. We watched as it burst to life with tadpoles, frogs and other magic.
We want to replicate this MAGIC with The Soil Web, UK (and eventually The Soil Web, International).
And you can help!
If you’re reading this and you’re a teacher in a school or your kids go to school email me (claire@creativelyconscious.co.uk) and I’ll send you our package for schools. We are rolling this out ACROSS the UK. You can simply reply if you are reading this in your email inbox.
If you’re reading this in the UK and you want to support me and my husband financially (from as little as £10) and receive a BEAUTIFUL poster or postcard to inspire your journey, go here and donate to our crowd funding campaign. We only need 20 of you to do this and we’ll release £1000 from the local authority to support the work! 🤙🏻. Thanks so so much!
If you’re reading this from outside the UK and you want to change the world with us, go here and help, share this post with your friends, family, garden enthusiasts, allotment owners, permaculture nerds - we can’t do this alone. We LOVE you.
Long live the humble and BRILLIANT tiger worm!!
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Claire and David
(and their thousands of pet worms)
Claire and David Venus are a wife and husband team who live under dark skies in Northumberland, UK.
In 2020, David was diagnosed with a catalogue of illnesses followed by contracting Covid-19 the week Claire was due to give birth to their daughter.
A cacophony of missed connections lead to David living with chronic fatigue and a calling to slow down even further. To embrace the first time in his life his (ex military) body had let him down. A slow and painful spiritual death and rebirth for both of them. Too weak to hold his newborn daughter or play football with his son, sitting in the garden was the one place of gentle pleasure and calm that brought hope to his healing and inspiration to his journey on planet earth.
Claire was interviewed about her experience here by the wonderful for her Lady’s Illness Library.
Thanks to Creative UK and the Rural Design Innovation Centre.
David wrote this but I agree - we are not mathematicians lol.
Pondiful - source - The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, UK
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Thanks so much Isabelle! Creating meaning as tiny acts of love and charity! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Brilliant idea! Let those little worms turn our waste into black gold to fertilise our soil! Does make me think of that time I had a worm hotel on my balcony. I lived in the city at the time and had a mini potted veggie garden on my balcony. The worm hotel was the easiest way to compost my food scraps to use them in my tiny balcony veggie garden. Unfortunately those little worms routinely escaped their home, crawling all over the balcony floor 😅. Lesson learned, don’t overcrowd your worms in their home cause they will go in search of more space!! Of course this is not really a big issue if your worm hotel is located in a real garden, then the escaped worms just crawl into the soil and you wouldn’t even notice any had escaped!
Anyway, good luck with your project, I hope it will be a big success!