Gurgling, grinding waste disposal units are a fairly common kitchen convenience these days, but how convenient are they, really? And more to the point, are they supporting or degrading the health of our natural environment?
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Want to know what worm farm you should buy? We review the different worm farm options to help you decide which is the best worm farm for you.
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Want to find the right solution for your organic kitchen waste? Here’s our guide to help you find the right approach for your specific situation. Covering compost, bokashi, worm farming & animals.
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Have your worms got some new neighbours? Usually this isn’t a problem however, it may be a sign that something is out of balance. Here’s a run down of common insect additions that may show up and what to do, or not do about them.
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Not everyone wants to be front and centre, shouting from the rooftops about their personal views, values and visions for a better world. However, most of us do have issues we feel strongly about and positive change that we hope to see.
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One may assume you need a big garden to have a worm farm. In reality, our worm farms only require 1 square meter of space and some general protection from extreme temperatures. Basically, if you have room for a wheelie bin or a medium pot plant, you can likely fit a worm farm somewhere.
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Your worm farm is an ecosystem of organisms which specialise in breaking waste down into rich, fertile soil. The main players are Tiger Worms with big appetites, they can eat their own weight a day! As you improve their environment, they will breed and increase your regenerative impact.
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After hitting rock bottom hopelessness and climate anxiety in winter of 2019, I developed a practice of personal enquiry to steer us towards mental resilience in the face of our uncertain future. The reminders enabled me to face what I’d been told were symptoms of ‘Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder’ and cultivate the will to continue my work as a changemaker, partner, friend and civil participant.
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If finding a new way to be on our home planet was driven by love instead of fear, what would that look like? Leo Murray's rhythmic prose and captivating imagery will gently question your values and motivations and give you permission to redefine 'simple' in your own life.
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Worm tea is the best natural fertiliser for your plants. It is far superior to chemical fertilisers, which contain pesticides and herbicides, that burn the soil and kill beneficial microbes. Worm tea adds beneficial microbes, and the microbes puts nitrogen back to the soil; making it available for plants to absorb. It’s a great way to boost your garden!
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We are all indigenous to somewhere, severed from our ancestry through colonial imperialism, unable to fullfill our purpose as kaitiakitanga - the guardians and gardeners of this planet.
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Before I got wound up creating change, I used to party for a living. You can only do that for so long before it becomes a bit meaningless - so I became obsessed with my current work in search for purpose. Recently I launched a concept which bridges these two worlds, and it went really well!
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Over 50% of our waste is biodegradable. Organic waste to landfill degrades our water, pollutes our air, and robs our soil of life. You can transform the problem into the solution by feeding this waste to worms and building soil with our easy and affordable service. Get a year subscription to our worm farm hire during May to contribute to Inspire Change, our social impact initiative reducing waste and growing food in local schools.
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We believe everyone wants to do the right thing for the environment. So it’s an awareness/education piece around what is the ‘right thing’ for the environment, why isn’t the right thing happening currently and how to change our habits towards the right thing moving forward. But how do we know what is the ‘right thing’?
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A key message in the ‘Beyond Sustainability’ workshops I toured over summer is that ‘Sustainability’ is a short sighted end-goal, existing only as a knife edge between ‘Degeneration’ and ‘Regeneration’. A great way to understand this is through Bill Reed’s Trajectory of Ecological Design.
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A reluctant watchdog in the sustainability world, I often wind up calling out businesses/organisations for greenwashing – or ‘eco virtue-signalling’ as I like to call it. It’s a total drag focusing on the negative, which is the wrong way to frame the discussion around change.
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To see our society as a tree, and understand the pre-colonial settlement of our whenua as the roots of that tree. Since the hui, I’ve formed some beautiful relationships here in the rohe that I live in. I am seeking to learn their story out of curiosity and care in the hope that a contextual awareness can inform the way I approach bioregional biculturalism, and beyond that help transition Aotearoa into a new way of inter-cultural interbeing.
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The article takes special interest in the method that we used to build the house initially. Over two weeks we had 14 participants come and live with us, paying to learn from the best Tiny House builders out about small space architecture and tiny house construction. We know three of those workshop participants who have built/are building their own tiny houses, so it’s a great way to spread knowledge and gain inspiration.
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I made a hot aerobic compost. But it was no ordinary compost… We wanted to explore whether we could attain heat from purely biological processes – in other words, infinitely sustainable processes.
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