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Cold weather worm farm management

Winter has well and truly set in down here in the south of the continent. So it’s a good time to share a couple of tips to add a little warmth to your winter worm farm. Although compost worms slow down (as we all do in the cold!), they are also very hardy and can […]

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Pep up your worms with worm farm conditioner!

Using one or two teaspoons of worm farm conditioner a week keeps your worm farm pumping. What you are feeding your worm farm will affect the nutrients available to the worms and the microbial content of the entire system. As with our own health, your worm farm benefits from a wide range of suitable foods. […]

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Worms: a great solution for apartment food-waste

Worm farms are only for suburban gardens, right?  Not any more – worms can be great neighbours for apartment dwellers too. Food waste can make up to 50% of landfill, and most of this can be processed through a worm farm. Resource recovery from food scraps is a fantastic way for apartment dwellers to lower […]

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Keeping your worms alive in hot weather

As we move into another Aussie summer, we thought it timely to share some of the ways to keep your worms cool, happy, and healthy by sharing some strategies we have developed over years of managing worm farms through the hot months. Compost worms can adjust to a wide temperature range, however bed temperatures much […]

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Self watering veggie garden – a DIY guide

Is a self-watering veggie garden really all it’s cracked up to be? In short, absolutely, YES. Veggie gardens can fail for many reasons such as average soil, lack of nutrients, and poor positioning, but over 17 years working on edible garden projects has taught us the number one cause of failure that we see is […]

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Our Hero

Apartment buildings are uniquely placed to make a significant impact in sustainably processing food waste. In recognition of the need to keep organics out of landfill the City of Melbourne ran trials of onsite composting of food waste. Wormlovers was successful in tendering to trial organic waste management at the Hero Building in the centre […]

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Up on the roof

There are so many obvious reasons to green our cities – cooler buildings through cooler rooftops, food growing near our food outlets, and creating a respite for birds and insects as well as a better environment for the humans. In 2010 Richard was engaged to design and build a new level on the existing roof of popular […]

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Keeping up with the New Joneses

February means one thing – the New Joneses moving into Melbourne’s CBD to show us all how to live more and use less. Wormlovers is right there with them once again with an on-site worm farm system, and wicking beds that are overflowing with herbs and veggies. Since 2016 the installation has been so successful it has […]

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