Having two composting bins makes life a little more difficult when explaining where food scraps go when a visitor or friend comes around. Use this friendly poster to show what does and doesn’t go in your bokashi or worm bins.
Category: Composting
DIY Bokashi bin
Worms can be a little picky about what they eat, so to make sure I compost as much as possible, I put the food scraps the worms won’t eat into a Bokashi bin. Bokashi is an anaerobic (oxygen-free) fermenting composting systems. Specific microorganisms effectively pickle the food scraps. If done …
Starting a worm farm
I’m very slap dash when it comes to starting a new worm farm. Traditional instructions for starting a worm farm are quite careful and prescriptive. If you’re new to worms (or you’re in an apartment), I’d recommend that you follow the sensible advice on other sites. So here is my …
Worms in your Hugelkultur beds
Worms are the heavy lifters in any hugel. Because of the nature of hugels, you can’t turn them over like you would traditional beds. Moving fertiliser, aerating and turning over the soil comes down to these little guys, and in my opinion, you can never have enough worms. I love …