Worm farming uses composting worms such as tiger worms or red worms to eat through a mixture of food scraps, garden waste, waste paper and cardboard to produce worm castings.
Worm farming also produces a liquid fertiliser, known as worm tea. Both the castings and the worm tea are excellent fertilisers and great for the garden.
New Zealanders are thrifty and savvy, and would probably be surprised at the amount of food waste that goes in the bin.
Check out the Love Food, Hate Waste website! be a broccoli stalker!
Worm farming compliments composting, these two actions make gold out of your household waste. Your garden will LOVE the addition of your transformed trash.
There are a few composting systems around, essentially you just want to use a variety of matter - fresh food scraps (not meat), green stuff (grass clippings, garden trimmings etc), stalky/brown/cardboard.
The key is, closing the loop on what you consume so it doesn't reach a dead end, in landfill!
Composting returns organic matter, to the earth, where microbes turn it into soil again. Its all about soil.
There are many tutorials online on how to make a compost bin from pellets. Having two or three bays is helpful so you can turn it over.
Once you start looking, you will be SO inspired!
As were reconnect with Papatuanuku, our understanding evolves, our health improves and we put into action, our love for the earth.
Remember....
Credits:
Created with images by sippakorn yamkasikorn - "untitled image" • Markus Spiske - "untitled image" • Edward Howell - "A small compost heap in a garden. "