#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

Harvesting some of our #compost for my wife to use top dressing some planters.

Good batch this. The combination of #Bokashi and crude #vermiculture has given us rich black compost this year.

Just needs a little sifting.

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

#VermiComposting #WormFarm

I found it in my worm farm. 😭 Thought it might be a mite, but this one has claws... I also don't know how to make the picture upload clearer. I've had my bin for almost a year now, and it's the first time I've seen this.

It's about 0.5cm long. The length of the claws are the same length as its body. It looks like scorpion claws. 8 legs...

*****

After taking a break and having to go back to work, I've discovered that this is a pseudoscorpion. Turns out that they are totally harmless and actually beneficial! They eat other bugs and they ignore the worms.

They also hunt the little flies that seem to plague worm bins. So now that I know what this is, it's going back in to the bin. 

Edit: Turns out there are more! When I picked up a little piece of newspaper to scoop it out of the little bowl, there were some hidden in the folds of the newspaper. Yay! Adding a few tags.

#Bugs #Pseudoscorpion #Arachnid #TodayILearned #TIL #Composting #Compost #Vermiculture #Worms

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