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
Aw Maurice! Lovely to hear from you! Shall we pop over and set you up with a couple of converted wheelie bins?! Have you seen those type of worm hotels?! Sounds like you’re living the dream! ✨🪱✨ 🚲 all in good time hey?!
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!
That’s a good effort maintaining a green soil space even in a city! ☺️👏🏼💕 Did you live somewhere hot at the time or was the balcony shielded from the rain? I know my little wriggly loves bolt as soon as the hotel lacks a certain level of moisture 😖
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).
It was a collie puppy and she ran in and sniffed about and we thought we might keep her but she belonged to our new neighbour so we had to give her back. ✨✨😆
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.
In the UK they are called Dustbins, as it was where city folks put their fire ashes. Then they gave everybody 3 recycling bins, which encouraged people to buy overpackaged products. Madness. My way is to buy what I can't produce from shops where I can leave the packaging behind. This results in a very small amount of paper for composting with food scraps, no tins and only a tiny amount of plastic. My dustbins only get filled once a year - as a store for 1% of the local fallen leaves. If only I could worm out of garbage taxes !! Peace, Maurice
You are so generous and brilliant John!! Thanks for sharing your process and supporting us on this journey. I remember putting a post out and getting a reply from you and being so please that someone sees what we see! ✨❤️
YES! So the idea is that it’s a gentle influence from the most positive in! The school can have a full set up if they raise £300 or more! My hope is we’ll get at least 5 who want to do it!
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!!!
Beautiful Molly. 😍 Once you get into soil the soil gets into YOU! 🙌💖💖💖
Haha so true!! 🪴😂
This article is 100% better and more understandable than the crowdfunding campaign and more relatable and engaging and influential too
Right?! So maybe I build a quick webpage out with this content and apologise for the content of the crowd funder and try again!
😂😂😂
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
Good efffort! 👌🏽 Bath tub size probably 🛁🪱
Aw Maurice! Lovely to hear from you! Shall we pop over and set you up with a couple of converted wheelie bins?! Have you seen those type of worm hotels?! Sounds like you’re living the dream! ✨🪱✨ 🚲 all in good time hey?!
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!
That’s a good effort maintaining a green soil space even in a city! ☺️👏🏼💕 Did you live somewhere hot at the time or was the balcony shielded from the rain? I know my little wriggly loves bolt as soon as the hotel lacks a certain level of moisture 😖
Aww this is so cute though! Some of our got eaten by our pet chickens - nature finds a way hey?! Thanks for your well wishes Ine!! ✨✨🪱✨✨
This is neat! I'll share it on my publication here. (I draw endangered species, so its also eco-related :))
Oh how brilliant!! Thank you so so much!
Now that is a super cool publication! I’ve subscribed. Amazing! 🤩
And thanks for the support!🙏
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).
Thanks Allegra I will! I was going to finish it today but a puppy ran in our house and other things and I didn’t! But I will!! ✨✨
Haha I have so many questions! Was it your puppy? Where did it come from? What did it do? 😆
It was a collie puppy and she ran in and sniffed about and we thought we might keep her but she belonged to our new neighbour so we had to give her back. ✨✨😆
Aww adorable! 😄
It was!!
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 😉
Hands down the coolest pet anyone has ever told me about Sarah!! 😍😍 I have so many questions!! 🤪
I did too but I replied in notes! Do you think we can get one?!!
Only if they take less cleaning out than the chickens! 🤪
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.
They really really do! ✨
Wise words well said Kathryn! 🥰
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!
In the UK they are called Dustbins, as it was where city folks put their fire ashes. Then they gave everybody 3 recycling bins, which encouraged people to buy overpackaged products. Madness. My way is to buy what I can't produce from shops where I can leave the packaging behind. This results in a very small amount of paper for composting with food scraps, no tins and only a tiny amount of plastic. My dustbins only get filled once a year - as a store for 1% of the local fallen leaves. If only I could worm out of garbage taxes !! Peace, Maurice
I never knew that about dustbins even though we have a bin for that specific purpose ! 🤯😆Peace be with you too. 🙏
Yes! Picked up by the dustmen!
Dustmen well I never! it sounds strange when you stand back from it. I feel like I should’ve picked up on this language and never did!? 🙈
https://youtu.be/jm5ZV1zetA0
A classic from my youth.
Lovey to hear from someone who’s been there and done it. Thanks John! 🥰
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You are so generous and brilliant John!! Thanks for sharing your process and supporting us on this journey. I remember putting a post out and getting a reply from you and being so please that someone sees what we see! ✨❤️
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Are we allowed to send the school pack to the school as a parent? 😊
YES! So the idea is that it’s a gentle influence from the most positive in! The school can have a full set up if they raise £300 or more! My hope is we’ll get at least 5 who want to do it!
Hen is on the eco committee at their school and would love to present it to them!
Oh perfect!! I’ll send you the PDF over!! So sweet of you both to offer!! Thank you! And nice and local so Dave could come consult and set up!
That would be amazing! 🤩
They’re trying to get some sort of eco school award so I think they’d be really open to it
oh what a beautiful fit - finalising today!
Thanks so much Isabelle! Creating meaning as tiny acts of love and charity! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Love love love love love. Dropped you a tenner. xx
Wow thanks Isabelle from mine and my little wormy friends hearts!!! 💕
You super star - thanks so much! I gave myself £11 because you know you got to back yourself!! I'm so grateful - let's hope I get 18 more! Yay!