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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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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Anyone who puts their hands in the soil and grows something knows how good it can be for the soul. The City of Melbourne recently brought us in on a great project. We installed a closed-loop food garden at the Salvation Army headquarters in the CBD. The Salvo’s run Hamodava Cafe in the building which […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whilst we are passionate about minimising waste, it is rare to meet someone putting that passion into practice – and at an organisational level. Wormlovers have had the pleasure of working with Brett Hedger from City of Port Phillip for a few years now, who has made it his mission to ensure ALL the waste […]