YES! I love that you are bringing attention to this! I have been learning about soil the past 6 months and after reading Soil by Matthew Evens we are in the process of getting out own worm farm!! Saving soil is the most nourishing conversation and action to be doing!!!
Hi folks, since exiting Brexshit for for Nederland, I finally have space and time to grow my own, learning more as I go. Sold the truck bought an E_bike, nearly finished a solar trailer. Next step is to find a Hectare or so with an eco-rebuild, probably in France. Now you have me wondering about the size of a worm hotel I'd need for that amount of land, Peace, Maurice
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!
Sounds amazing! My daughter's school and my son's nursery might be interested in this, and I work with a few schools so happy to spread the word if you want to email me the schools info (allegra@watchthisspace.uk).
Oh my goodness! We have a worm farm because we have axolotls. My husband decided that we should finally get a worm farm so we could breed them to feed to the axolotls and now we have compost dirt that we have used in our front flower bed and had passed along to our neighbor for her tomatoes. I've wanted to compost for years but because I suck at gardening (seriously, I kill everything I try to grow), I struggled to justify it. But it is so much fun to watch our food scraps turn to dirt! And our axolotls are very happy with their organic, home grown worms 😉
Here in the US of A, we call these things worm bins. We've had ours over ten years. The descendants of the original worms are doing their thing.
We're vegan, so all our food scraps go in there (except avacado pits and skins). We have recycling (alas not curbside), so nothing stinky goes in our garbage can (rubbish bin!) and the volume is low, so we've been able to switch to a pickup every two weeks instead of weekly.
YES! I love that you are bringing attention to this! I have been learning about soil the past 6 months and after reading Soil by Matthew Evens we are in the process of getting out own worm farm!! Saving soil is the most nourishing conversation and action to be doing!!!
This article is 100% better and more understandable than the crowdfunding campaign and more relatable and engaging and influential too
Hi folks, since exiting Brexshit for for Nederland, I finally have space and time to grow my own, learning more as I go. Sold the truck bought an E_bike, nearly finished a solar trailer. Next step is to find a Hectare or so with an eco-rebuild, probably in France. Now you have me wondering about the size of a worm hotel I'd need for that amount of land, Peace, Maurice
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!
This is neat! I'll share it on my publication here. (I draw endangered species, so its also eco-related :))
Sounds amazing! My daughter's school and my son's nursery might be interested in this, and I work with a few schools so happy to spread the word if you want to email me the schools info (allegra@watchthisspace.uk).
Oh my goodness! We have a worm farm because we have axolotls. My husband decided that we should finally get a worm farm so we could breed them to feed to the axolotls and now we have compost dirt that we have used in our front flower bed and had passed along to our neighbor for her tomatoes. I've wanted to compost for years but because I suck at gardening (seriously, I kill everything I try to grow), I struggled to justify it. But it is so much fun to watch our food scraps turn to dirt! And our axolotls are very happy with their organic, home grown worms 😉
This is a delightful piece. The little actions that we take each day add up to a big life and a big difference in our world.
Here in the US of A, we call these things worm bins. We've had ours over ten years. The descendants of the original worms are doing their thing.
We're vegan, so all our food scraps go in there (except avacado pits and skins). We have recycling (alas not curbside), so nothing stinky goes in our garbage can (rubbish bin!) and the volume is low, so we've been able to switch to a pickup every two weeks instead of weekly.
10/10 would recommend!
Are we allowed to send the school pack to the school as a parent? 😊
Thanks so much Isabelle! Creating meaning as tiny acts of love and charity! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Love love love love love. Dropped you a tenner. xx