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Worm Farming 101 Workshop
Everything you could possibly want to know about how to successfully run a worm farm.
Worm farming is a great alternative to disposing of your food waste in the rubbish bin while creating natural fertiliser for your garden. By recycling food scraps in a worm farm you can help reduce organic waste disposed in landfill, in turn reducing the production of leachate and greenhouse gases from landfills. Worm ‘castings’ are ideal natural fertiliser for your garden and cost nothing!
Our Worm Farming 101 Workshop covers the following topics:
- Why have a worm farm? Learn why food scraps & garden waste must be taken out of our rubbish bins
- Setting up your worm farm
- What goes into your worm farm?
- Learn about different worm farm options
- Maintaining your worm farm
- How to use worm castings & ‘worm juice’ on your garden
- The vital role of organic matter & humus in your soil
- Outlining the human health problems associated with using synthetic fertilisers on your edible gardens
- Answers to the most common problems with worm farms
Venue: Kimbriki’s Eco House & Garden Education Centre is located within the Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, 1 Kimbriki Road, Ingleside.
Access: By vehicle only – as there is no pedestrian access to Kimbriki please arrange to arrive by vehicle. All vehicles must enter and exit Kimbriki via the Weighbridges. On entry, stop to advise the Operator before proceeding to the Eco House car park.
*Northern Beaches Residents attending the entire Composting & Worms workshop: Northern Beaches Council would like to support its residents in recycling food waste at home by giving you a voucher towards buying a worm farm or compost bin. Northern Beaches Council will issue a $90 voucher to Northern Beaches residents who attend a Kimbriki Composting and Worms workshop and who have not had a free worm farm, compost bin or voucher from Council in the past. One voucher per household (not per person) is issued irrespective of number of workshops attended. The vouchers are issued directly from Council after you have attended the workshop. Please allow up to 3-4 weeks for the voucher to be issued and posted to your residential address. Voucher can be used at New Leaf Nursery in Ingleside or at the Kimbriki Eco House & Garden Eco shop.
