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Growing Wilde - Soil and Gardens I love growing food using the power of soil biology, and supporting other people to do that too - which is good for you, your soil and the world! And it's fun!

Growing and sharing gardens is an awesome way to foster connection, community and resilience.

I scored a bunch of free “rubbish pumpkins” recently and for the sake of efficiency (and keeping the suuuper gross ones ...
29/08/2026

I scored a bunch of free “rubbish pumpkins” recently and for the sake of efficiency (and keeping the suuuper gross ones out of my kitchen 😅) I set up an outdoor chopping board station - very handy to make up a tub of worm food outside when I have bulk ingredients!

Hot tip - the tomato did explode all over my shoes when hit with a dull axe, so I should perhaps keep this for less juicy things 😆

Also aww the watermelon loves you 🥰

29/08/2026

That feeling when you're exhausted and just want to rest, but your clingy toddler has way too much energy 😅

This is a bacterial-feeding nematode, so one of the good guys! From a sample of worm castings. Most nematodes are beneficial - the root-feeders give everyone else a bad rap! So it was good to see so many of them in this batch of castings.

This is the largest nematode I've ever seen, personally - this video is taken is at 200x magnification, because at 400x it wouldn't fit on the screen! And the little guy winging around just made me laugh 😀


25/08/2026

Sustainable Living Workshop - September Topic is Happy, Healthy Chickens 🐓

Come along as we discuss the benefits and challenges of keeping a backyard flock. Everything from choosing breeds, coop designs and feeding regimes. You will learn how to care for your girls and discover a variety of ways that you can enlist their help in your garden.

Thursday 10th Sept, 10am - 11.30am at the Dardanup Hall.

Bookings preferred, link is in the comments

Feeding the worm crew in one of the mini-farms… I like making a trench, filling it with the food, then covering it back ...
24/08/2026

Feeding the worm crew in one of the mini-farms… I like making a trench, filling it with the food, then covering it back over. You can feed right on top of the bedding, but burying it greatly reduces pest issues!

Putting the trench across one end instead of down the middle would probably be better, just in case there’s something disagreeable in the food or it heats up. That would give the worms space to move away from the issue and down to the other end. I was pretty confident this batch would cause no issues though.

I don’t usually measure but pictured is 1 cup (of mixed fruit/veg - no citrus or onion) because I wanted to see how long it took for them to go through that amount in one of these lil starter kits.

A few days later they had mostly processed this lot, although of course I didn’t get a photo of that 😅

So we were at another homeschool market today and a few folks were interested but not willing to commit to the responsib...
21/08/2026

So we were at another homeschool market today and a few folks were interested but not willing to commit to the responsibility of a worm farm until they felt confident they knew enough to manage it - fair enough!

So I answered lots of questions, and thought I’d make a FAQ post on here to answer as many of them as I can remember, including “what’s the point of having a worm farm and WHY exactly would I want the castings anyway??”

Which made me realise I REALLY need to get onto those info booklets I keep forgetting to make up 😅

So if YOU would like to keep compost worms but don’t feel confident doing so yet, tell me what questions you have and I’ll add them to my detailed FAQ post ASAP (and try to answer them more simply right here in the comments as well)

Pic is of two mini worm farms - one with worms added already (left*) and one holding just the pre-composted bedding material (right).

* you can see the slightly different colour of the bedding mix they were in prior to me counting them out. I always start off counting worms one by one 😬 but after the first 20 I realise how ridiculous that is 😅 and start estimating bunches of 10 +, and including at least a pinch of the bedding material with the worms, which gives them something to hide in as I collect them in a container prior to transfer. They do not like direct light or being out in the open!

Next batch of pre-composted worm bedding heating up nicely! I gave it a stir right after I took this picture to make sur...
18/08/2026

Next batch of pre-composted worm bedding heating up nicely! I gave it a stir right after I took this picture to make sure the centre had enough oxygen. Once it cools off it will be ready to use in the worm farms 😎

17/08/2026

Adding an extra 1000 worms to a bathtub farm to speed up castings production! This tub started with around 4000 worms in half a bathtub of pre-composted bedding, with weekly-ish feedings and bedding top-ups - then I got impatient and added these extra workers to get to the castings harvest sooner :D

14/08/2026

I had a lovely Hands-on morning yesterday helping the Hudson Road Family Centre build two raised garden beds. 💚

We used the opportunity to host A Plentiful Patch workshop, showcasing that it is possible to build a food producing garden on a budget. Using the No-Dig, Lasagne style method we transformed garden waste into a useful filler for the beds. Layers of w**ds, spent hay, kitchen scraps, stale bread and leaves formed the bulk, topped with pockets of soil for planting and w**d suppressing mulch.

We planted the beds with a mix of seasonal fruit, veggies and herbs. We added a few flowers to brighten up the space & attract beneficial insects and strawberries 🍓 for the children to harvest.

Thank you to the lovely ladies that braved the weather forecast to help build beds and learn more about growing food. Luckily the heavy rain held off until we finished at lunchtime.

It is always a pleasure to share knowledge, and help grow food and nourish our community.

This Hands-on workshop was made possible with a WasteSorted Grant from the Waste Authority of Western Australia.

Thank you to Aaron from my local feed supplier Trading Co in Argyle for supplying the spent hay.


I helped my daughter make up a few mini worm farms to sell at a local homeschool market, and while she didn’t make any s...
14/08/2026

I helped my daughter make up a few mini worm farms to sell at a local homeschool market, and while she didn’t make any sales on the day - word of mouth came to the rescue and she’s only got one left out of the three she made.

I might have to start offering something similar as an ongoing product! With the microbially-active bedding (microscope evidence coming soon!) they would be much more valuable than a box of worms from the big green shed, in my opinion…

This worm farm is full of castings and almost ready to sift and harvest! I’m gradually baiting the worms out to make sif...
14/08/2026

This worm farm is full of castings and almost ready to sift and harvest! I’m gradually baiting the worms out to make sifting easier (on them and me 😅) but the cocoons might require a finer sieve…

So hopefully a bunch of castings for sale soon - just in time for spring 😃

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