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#CroydenVic - #UrbanNanna: #Composting and #WormFarms

Next date: Wednesday, 13 May 2026 | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

"Join #permaculture and #sustainability educator, Anna the Urban Nanna, to learn about the many different ways of composting and using worm farms to reduce your kitchen and garden waste. This presentation removes the challenges of composting by explaining the basics and exploring different compost systems to find the right one for your needs. You’ll learn about;

- The science of compost ratios in straightforward language
- Different commercially made compost systems and worm farms and which gardens they suit
- DIY compost bins and bays
- and more!

Event details

Date: Wednesday 13 May 2026
Time: 10am to 11.30am
Venue: Croydon Library
Cost: Free
Bookings are essential

Presenter

The Urban Nanna specialises in teaching people about traditional skills, crafts and methods of living set in a modern-day world. As well as reviving traditional ways of cooking, preserving, and crafting, we focus heavily on permaculture and living a more sustainable lifestyle by gardening and adopting zero-waste principles in everyday life.

‘Nanna’ Anna is a former primary teacher with a horticultural background, and founder of The Urban Nanna. Anna is the author of the book ‘Everyday Permaculture’. Through TV, radio, articles, workshops and print media avenues, she shares traditional knowledge, methods and skills with people around the world much like grandmas used to do with their children and grandchildren."

FMI and to book a spot:
https://www.maroondah.vic.gov.au/Residents-property/Waste-recycling/Waste-reduction-community-education/Waste-events/Urban-Nanna-Composting-and-Worm-Farms

#SolarPunkSunday #CompostWeek #VictoriaAustralia #Composting #Vermiculture #ZeroWaste

Ever since I used the settlement money (it was digital currency) from the class action lawsuit against Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal to buy worms to eat my garbage, YouTube is relentless in showing me ads for Mill, that mechanical kitchen composter.

Hey, YouTube, this is not my first rodeo. The worms are happy, and already fattening up, and probably will be making worm babies very soon.

#Backyard
#Science
#vermiculture

The worms are here! They arrived one day late, so they are extra scrawny. We added a little water after taking this pic and set some food in two corners of the bin. All seems well. So far, nobody's trying to escape out the bottom (but I did line it with acorn shells.)

#vermiculture
#composting
#Backyard
#Science

I just built a worm bin and ordered a bag of red wiggler worms to eat our garbage, a fitting use for that $24 that came in the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica settlement.

Stay tuned

#Backyard
#Science
#vermiculture
#composting

Yesterday, was #worm castings harvesting day.

You get the top shelf (with the most recent food in it), move it down a layer, and get the bottom shelf (which they've been eating for ages, and is now mostly thick muddy rich soil-like castings), and get all the castings out to add to soil.

In my case - preparing the way for a planting of chilies! That tray of mud? That was all food like 24 months ago.

#Gardening #Vermiculture

The worms which escape from our worm farm go to a nearby outdoor mat. The mat is made out of coir which makes a cosy worm home. It also seems to be food that worms like eating. As a result the mat is falling to pieces.

#vermiculture #worms #gardening

Compost worms are aquatic!

This is (I believe) an Eisenia foetida (red wiggler compost worm) living in the soil and gravel substrate of a fish aquarium I set up a couple of months ago. It is fully submerged with no direct access to the atmosphere!

#Compostodon #vermiculture

@Pollinators @docdieterlen

Yes, I have tried worm composting with red wigglers, and they go through newspaper and cardboard as long as it's broken up. Newspapers use vegetable-based ink, but glossy paper often has ink that has chemicals you don't want in your food. Glue inside cardboard layers is made from starch - fine for composting.

https://www.gardenmyths.com/safe-compost-paper-cardboard/
#vermiculture

Haven't seen my earth friends in 3 months!
They must still be alive, the food is disappearing.
I don't know if they're increasing in numbers, it's my 1st time trying #Vermiculture.
What started as a few worms for fishing, came to be a bin in the corner. They aren't good pets, but they're quiet.
https://www.alabamawildlife.org/vermiculture/

I am in the office today for free air conditioning. My home office desk is in front of a west facing window so it is not possible to work there on hoy days.

Though I will ensure the air conditioning is on in another section of the house to keep the worms cool. Must remember to check that moisture levels are good for them this evening.
#vermiculture #Melbourne

Took a couple of photos today when I was feeding the worms. They've survived below 0F / -18C winters, recovered from spontaneous composting that cooked most of them in the summer once, and have been doing pretty good this year without any drama except it took a while for them to recover from last winter. Coffee grounds, produce scraps, and paper are their food.

#vermiculture #RedWigglers #worms #gardening #MastodonOnly #CCBYNCND

Hi Folks,

I'm considering trying vermicompost this year because our kitchen scraps serve as deer food in the compost pile.

Any tips? I'm considering just using the worms from my compost pile and not red wigglers since they are not native and can easily escape.

I'm planning to use the three-bucket method.

#gardening #vermicompost #vermiculture #WormComposting
#GrowYourOwn

One of the fascinating things about compost worms (Eisenia foetida) is that they don't actually eat living plant tissue. Instead they savor the brown rotty stuff that forms on decaying plant and animal tissues.

I've seen worms reach up to damaged leaves and pull them down to the soil to clean them up and have a snack. I'm trying to say: they're gardeners. They keep the garden tidy (at their scale) and healthy.

#compost #compostodon #worms #vermiculture