Watch: Compost Collective featured on Gardening Australia

Costa's worm farms and compost bins are breaking down loads of household kitchen waste from the street, as well as shredded paper, allowing it to be returned to the garden as a ripper fertiliser. It’s a very effective use of a challenging, narrow space, and sees organic matter diverted from landfill, and turned into top notch compost. Costa uses this compost in his verge veggie garden.

https://www.loccal.org.au/watch-compost-collective-featured-on-gardening-australia/

The LOCCAL Loop newsletter: March, 2026

# ClimateChange #BenefitsOfComposting #Bushfires #YIMBY #CommunityResilience #What'sOn #CommunityComposting The end of summer is upon us, although you would hardly know it from the temperatures! This summer saw records tumble across Australia, with the CSIRO reporting that January brought the hottest temperatures ever recorded in numerous areas - some exceeding 49°C. Image courtesy of ABC 27/1/26 Tragically, extreme heat also fuelled devastating bushfires across Victoria.

https://www.loccal.org.au/the-loccal-loop-newsletter-march-2026/

Watch: Northey St City Farm composting demo

Northey St City Farm community composting, Brisbane, QLD Northey St City Farm composter Andy explains the basic steps involved in the hot composting they use to create the beautiful compost we use in our gardens and sell at their nursery Looking for inspiration for your community compost system? There are so many examples of people closing the loop and building community around the country. Get inspiration and view other example videos from around Australia featured in the media and online here: #CommunityCompostingClips

https://www.loccal.org.au/watch-northey-st-city-farm-composting-demo/

How bokashi is helping a poultry farm’s nutrient management

Debbie James, writing for the UK-based Farmers Weekly, reports on Woodend Farm in the Scottish Borders, where manure produced by the farm’s 32,000 free-range hens is mixed with woodchip, chopped straw and an inoculant rich in microbes. Read the full article here

http://www.loccal.org.au/how-bokashi-is-helping-a-poultry-farms-nutrient-management/

Compost for a cause

Our friends at YIMBY have been doing what they can to help support people impacted by the horrific bushfires that have raged through Victoria this summer. This article is reprinted with permission. What a start to the year it has been! Floods, fires and a local township severely impacted, with buildings, business, homes, gardens and bushland burned. YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) sends love to everyone who has been impacted and thanks to everyone who has helped out so far.

http://www.loccal.org.au/compost-for-a-cause/

The LOCCAL Loop newsletter: February, 2026

To support community composters, we really want to build our membership. Please encourage your friends and colleagues to join LOCCAL. Whether you're a crack community composter, a backyard composter who takes in grass clippings from your neighbours, or someone who supports composters with cakes and tea (a community compost ally) - whatever your role, we want to hear from you!

https://www.loccal.org.au/the-loccal-loop-newsletter-february-2026/

Wormlovers is for Sale!

After 12 successful years nurturing Wormlovers, the founders are now seeking new leadership to propel it to greater heights. This established vermiculture and organic waste management business is ripe for expansion and increased profitability, awaiting the right individuals to guide its future.

http://loccal.org/2025/12/12/wormlovers-is-for-sale/

The LOCCAL Loop newsletter: December 2025

Community composting updates, news, events from around Australia and beyond from the Local Community Compost Alliance (LOCCAL). Australia-wide For the first time in Australia, existing and anticipated impacts from flooding, droughts, bushfires, and heat have been published by the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Showing postcode by postcode what our suburbs and cities may expect and when.

http://loccal.org/2025/12/01/the-loccal-loop-newsletter-december-2025/

Welcoming the first CoolSeat to South Australia!

A CoolSeat has recently been installed out the front of the Port Environment Centre in Adelaide, fitting into an alcove in the building facade alongside the long-running community street garden. Accessible to the public, vistors can now help themselves to vegetables, herbs and native food plants fed by the hidden composting bay.

http://loccal.org/2025/11/29/welcoming-the-first-coolseat-to-south-australia/

The LOCCAL Loop newsletter: October 2025

LOCCAL hosted the Community Composter's Spring Convergence in October. If you missed it, here are the highlights, along with just a few of the compost-related offering going on around the country. We are always on the lookout for new stories to share with (you) our network! Drop us a line if you have something to share...

http://loccal.org/2025/10/28/the-loccal-loop-newsletter-october-2025-2/