Why use castings?

  • Environmental Benefits:

    • Reduces waste: It diverts organic waste, like food scraps, from landfills, where they would otherwise decompose and release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
    • Fights climate change: By reducing methane emissions from landfills, worm composting helps mitigate climate change.
    • Improves soil health: The resulting worm castings are excellent soil amendments that enhance soil structure and nutrient retention.

  • Gardening and Plant Benefits

    • Creates nutrient-rich fertilizer: Worm castings are packed with essential plant nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, and potassium, plus vital micronutrients.
    • Boost plant growth: The high microbial content and organic matter in worm castings improve plant establishment and growth.
    • Microbes: worms create beneficial fertilizer from food scraps by digesting organic matter, where gut microbes break down harmful pathogens and convert the material into nutrient-rich worm castings.
    • Increases soil resilience: The enhanced soil structure and nutrient availability help plants thrive and resist pests like aphids, mites, and diseases, along with root rot.
    • Chemical-free fertilizer: Safe for all plants and pets.

Vermicomposting → Worm Castings

We’re excited to introduce you to the wonderful world of worm composting!
Meet your new best friends for the garden:
red wiggler worms!

These tireless recyclers can turn kitchen waste into ‘black gold’, a powerful soil amendment that will make your plants thrive.

What is vermicomposting?

“Vermicomposting” uses the Latin prefix “vermi” (meaning worm), while “worm composting” is a more straightforward English description of the same biological process.

Worm composting is a process that relies on worms, most commonly red wigglers, to break down organic waste and
turning food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer (worm castings), which improves soil health and plant growth.

Unlike traditional hot composting, worm composting is a cold process that uses microorganisms in the worms’ digestive system to create nutrient-dense castings, a soil amendment highly prized by gardeners for the ability to improve soil structure and promote plant growth.

What are worm castings?

Worm castings are the rich, nutrient-dense, and microbe-filled product of the worm composting process. Worm composting is the method of using worms to break down organic waste and food waste, while worm castings are the excrement produced by the worms, a key component of the finished worm compost.