What’s New in Biological Services
Worm Farms and Buffets Are Now Available in the Nursery Retail!!
The worm buffet is a small worm farm designed especially for raised garden beds. You place the buffet into your garden bed and add 500 composting worms inside, along with your food scraps. The worms will process your food waste and deposit castings into the surrounding soil by moving in and out of the holes in the bottom of the farm.
Once established this worm farm will process 1 to 2 kilos of kitchen scraps every week!
If you have more kitchen waste, either add additional buffet units or look at purchasing a larger worm farm.
The worm café is a 3-tiered worm farm and once established worms can process 5 to 6 kilos of waste each week. 1000 composting worms is the minimum amount required for this size farm.
Both of our worm farms are Australia designed and made, and more importantly, they are made from 100% recycled plastic.
Why vermicompost?
Your worms are fed with kitchen waste which reduces food waste going into landfill and helps in reducing methane greenhouse gas emissions. Your worms will create worm castings which are fantastic for your plants and for improving soil structure, kids love them, and they are easy and low maintenance.
Our ‘Worm Power For Sustainable Community Farming’ grant started in August 2022.
We placed viking spinach seeds into 100 pots and ran 10 different experiments to trial the growth rate with potting media containing either worm liquid, worm castings, chemicals fertilisers and mixes of both organic and chemical fertilisers.
Our next worm workshop will be held in 2 sessions on 9 November, where our findings will be presented by Chany, from University of Queensland in Session 1.
In Session 2, Yvonne and Ella will talk about all things in the composting worm world.
- How to make your own worm farm for very little cost.
- How to look after your worm farm.
- How to harvest worm castings and what to do with them, as well as troubleshooting.
Session 1: Presented by Chany from UQ (This session will take approx. 1 hour)
- FREE to attend followed by a light morning tea.
Session 2: Presented by Yvonne and Ella from GDLG (This session will take approx. 1-2 hours)
- $15 non-members
- $10 members
To register for Session 1, Session 2, or both, Click Here or call the office on 5483 8866
NB: Spaces are limited so bookings are essential.