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The Worm Buffet is a compact waste converter, turning scraps into soil to nourish and feed surrounding your plants!⠀ ⠀ It's a space-saving design that enables maximum room for growing your veggies - while supplying surrounding plants with beneficial nutrients to self-fertilise for really yummy home-grown food.⠀ ⠀ The best part - the worms do all the work! Worms process your food scraps and turn them into rich castings, to deliver this nutrient into the surrounding soil through the holes in the worm farm. This means they're free-range worms!⠀ ⠀ Now available in Australia, and coming soon to the US!
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Fun Fact! Do you know why our Can-O-Worms worm farm is round? It's not just so we could name it the most iconic name of all time - it's actually because this worm farm was designed for teaching kids how to recycle. Research shows better engagement from young people when standing in a circle. It's more inclusive, increases engagement and inspires learning, plus everyone gets to be hands-on and interactive!
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Don't forget to keep feeding your veggies and seedlings with Worm Tea during winter. While your plants may be slower-growing during the colder months, they are still searching for nutrients! As a guide, you should try and pour worm tea over your veggies every second week. If you're keen and want to add it every week, just dilute with some extra water to ensure the mix isn't too strong for the plants.
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Worm care tips for Winter!
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Food waste is a global challenge that has environmental, social and economic impacts. In Australia alone, food waste is estimated to cost the economy $20 billion each year with significant impacts on the environment through wasted resources such as land, water, energy and fuel to produce and distribute food. Globally, approximately one billion tonnes of food produced for human consumption is wasted each year, costing the global economy around US$940 billion. This wastage consumes nearly a quarter of all the water used in agriculture, and produces 8 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. When disposed of in landfill, food waste has other environmental impacts such as the production of greenhouse gas emissions and landfill leachate which leads to water pollution. Food waste reduction is a collective journey, and every household can make a difference by composting food waste at home to keep it out of the waste stream.
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You don't need a backyard or large garden to have a worm farm! A worm farm produces great benefits for potted plants and indoor gardens too. Dilute your worm tea with water at a ratio of 10:1 to use as a liquid fertiliser on your plants. You'll be amazed at the results!
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Here’s a few snippets over the last month showing the variety of food as well as the amount of paper I add to my worm cafe. Remember, you can always put in more food in than you think, just need to add enough carbon to balance it out. I also keep it at our front door as we live in an apartment. Hope you enjoy! ♻️ 🥑 🌽 ... Egg Shells Vacuum dust Kitchen scraps Shredded paper ... #wormcafe #wormfarm #worms #kitchenwaste #kitchenscraps #growyourownfood #composting #compost #indoorcomposter
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Variety is the spice of life! By feeding your worm farm or compost bin with a diversity of ingredients, you are not only going to make great, rich castings and compost - you are keeping your worms happy!
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Collect your coffee grounds and feed them to your worms! ☕️
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Hands up if you're guilty of forgetting your reusable shopping bags! I find the easiest way to remember, is to put the bags back into the car straight after I've unpacked the shopping.
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Little garden helpers are the best type of helpers! Kids love being in the garden, exploring, and learning about our natural world. Composting is a great activity to get them involved in learning how to be socially responsible by recycling organic waste. Best of all - it gets them outside and playing in nature!
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Mix, Mix, Mix! One of the most important steps to any good compost is to mix. This is to enable oxygen to enter the compost pile to promote the good microbes which thrive in an aerobic environment. While it's important to give your compost bin and worm farm contents a good mix, when it comes to veggie beds, it's good practice to turn the soil over when replanting beds. This enables an even mixing of manures and composts added to rebuild soil fertility. The process of aerating loosens the soil to enable good drainage for water to travel to the root level.
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Let's talk Compost! The microbes responsible for breaking down compost need a balanced diet of nitrogen and carbon. Nitrogen comes from green materials such as food scraps, manure and grass clippings. Carbon comes from brown materials such as dead leaves, straw, wood chips, and shredded paper. A ratio that contains equal portions works best for a balanced and healthy compost.
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Competition Closed! Thanks to everyone who entered our Tumbleweed giveaway, we are so excited to have received over 4,000 entries! Congratulations to our lucky winner @caitlin_brydon - we hope you are excited as you are to have the first very Worm Buffet Kit heading your way!! For those of you interested in this product, we are working busily behind the scenes to have this on shelves soon. Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to know when you can purchase one! You will find a Join our Newsletter link in the bio.
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Here's an eco-friendly tip for starting your own seeds - use toilet rolls! It's a fun little project and it's 100% sustainable. When the seeds grow into seedlings, you can plant straight into the garden. Are you growing your own veggies at home? If not, you should be! It's so satisfying and you don't need a lot of space! The best part about growing your own food is that you get to close the loop on your household sustainability. Use the nutrients from your worm farm or compost bin to fertilise your veggies and build your soil > grow your own food > eat it > recycle the scraps and the whole process starts again!
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Tumbleweed 4K Giveaway! To celebrate reaching 4,000 followers we’d like to giveaway one of our NEW in-ground worm farms – the Tumbleweed Worm Buffet! This product hasn’t hit the market yet, so you could be the lucky winner of the very first one!⠀ ⠀ To enter, simply comment and tag 2 friends.⠀ ⠀ The giveaway Worm Buffet Kit includes:⠀ 1 x Worm Buffet In-ground Worm Farm⠀ 1 x Tube-O-Worms containing 500 Worms⠀ 1 x Worm Farm Bedding Block⠀ 1 x Worm Farm & Compost Conditioner⠀ 1 x Organi Bin⠀ ⠀ Enter as many times as you like, each comment tagging two new friends counts as a new entry. Competition open to Australia and USA only and will run until midnight on the 17th May 2020. So don’t wait – get your entries in!⠀ ⠀ The winner will be chosen at random to be announced on the 22nd May 2020. The prize pack will be delivered to the lucky winner. Ready, set, go!⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Our Tumbleweed 4K Giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or associated with Instagram in any way.⠀
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Worm Tea and Casting really make a veggie patch sing. If you've got an empty spray bottle around the house, you can fill this up with Worm Tea and combine with water so it looks like a weak tea - The kids can then go wild wild spray all things veggies, plants and trees.
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Crunch, crunch, crunch - hope you had the volume on for this one. Crushed egg shells are fantastic for worms gizzards, they are also super high in calcium which is great for compost nutrients. If you're keen to do this too, I recommend washing the shells so there is no egg white left in the shell then letting them air dry on a window sill for about a week before crunching. Happy crunching!
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We love seeing home-grown veggie experiments! Worm poo challenge - take a look! The left side was grown using worm castings and the right side wasn’t! Look at the difference in colour <3 Thanks for sharing! @_welcometomygarden_ @in_my_patch_
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How much organic waste do you compost each week? Do you use a worm farm, or compost bin, or both?
