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We see Vermiculture as the practice of utilising specific earthworms with a diverse biodiversity of organisms to compost food and waste materials into vermicompost amd vermiliquid (worm tea) through the use of worm farms at a domestic level.

19/07/2025

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29/04/2025

🍃🍂🪱Go-Green Worm Farms KZN will be 'going into HIBERNATION' as Autumn sets in and Winter approaches 🍃🍂🪱❄️

As with all worms farms, seasonally they keep working as always; but take things a little bit slower in the colder seasons.

We will be following our red wriggler friends, in this seasonable habit; and will be taking advantage of the slower growing seasons coming, to do some much needed work on our Farm and home.

As with our red wriggler buddies; we will be focusing our slower, but still active energy over the colder seasons to do some much needed work on our home, general property, and of course our worm farms themselves.

The recent seasons,excessive rains etc have cause so many things to change for our property, as it has with many others in KZN.

We had quite a bit of flood damage to various areas and we had to do alot of 'quick' work such as trenches etc to eleviate the flooded water that left us with alot of mess, mud and chaos 🙈
Our young family members have had a blast with the availability of mud 😅

As we head into the drier months, we will be seizing the opportunity of less rain to sort out more effective drainage, and re-establish damaged areas and plan out new and better areas of our own vegetable and food gardens.

We have some exciting plans for the future of our own farm, some extra food production that we hope to have 'ready to go' by SPRING, using our own matured compost heaps that have been maturing for over a year and are ready to get working 👏

We also will be working on, doing some much needed maintenance of our stock worm farms to boost breeding and efficiency for Spring.

We will be slowly harvesting our beautiful vermicompost and have it ready for sale by Spring.

(Our vermicompost harvesting is a VERY slow and tedious process, as we harvest large quantities from our large worm farms and its done by hand, so it may take us all season 😀)

We will still be available for all sales of our available products.

Hopefully we manage to get all our work done, to have some exciting products and results ready for Spring.

Happy Autumn and Winter gardening and worm farming to all our friends, family and customers!!

16/04/2025

HELPING YOUR WORM FARMS 'DEAL' WITH THE EXTRA/EXCESS RAIN

With the extra rain we have experienced across KZN, emptying your worm tea collection/catchment bowls allows for extra drainage, prevents your worm farm from becoming water logged and can assist with avoiding possible drowning of your red wrigglers.

Red wriggler earthworms don't mind damp worm farms, but overly saturated worm farms reduce movement and oxygen.
The worm tea is still very much usable, even if diluted by the rains, you can add it to your flower beds or fruit trees, 'dead' patches on your lawn, as it will be diluted further by any coming rains. It can also be added to your garden Compost heaps, to aid in boosting it with additional micro-organisms that will help process your compost heap.

Adding in extra dry materials into your worm farms such as torn or shredded cardboard, paper, dry leaf litter, hay etc allows extra water and moisture to be absorbed and increase aeration.

For your garden Compost heaps, this is a good time to flip it as much as possible, to increase aeration and allow the rains to assist with the natural decomposition, break down of the organic matter.

Should you have any worries, queries, questions, don't hesitate to WhatsApp us on 083 544 5508.

26/03/2025

🍁SEASON CHANGE ADVICE FOR YOUR WORM FARMS;🍂

As Autumn sets in, the garden starts to show signs of slowing down, with the season change and as with all nature - worm farms start to 'slow down' in our colder areas.

To assist your worm farms and keep them active as the temps get colder, you can assist your worms with some simple changes; to keep them wriggling and doing their 'thing' over the next few months.

INSULATION is key for 'weathering over' your worm farms and its as easy as adding some simple 'ingredients' into your worm farms.

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Wheat, barley straw is a fantastic insulation that the worms adore, and only required in smalls amounts.
This can be found from local pet suppliers in smaller quantities (as it is seasonal and usually only available locally, towards the summer months)
Adding straw into your worm farms, increases 'movement' as well as insulation and breeding materials for the worms, and can be used year round, but is extra helpful during the colder months.

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Hay is more available, it doesn't give as much insulation as the straw but works in conjunction with additional materials such as shredded cardboard and paper materials.

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Untreated, 'pet safe' Sawdust can assist with insulation when used in conjunction with the additional materials.

As with everything in life, a balance of all insulation materials in something to keep an eye on.

'Too much of a good thing' - adding all thes additional materials for insulation can can reduce moisture from the worm farms and may slow down their consumption of top lying scraps, if your food and insulation materials are not evenly distributed.

So to problem shoot this from happening;

You want to avoid 'dumping' in large quantities of insulation bedding/materials, that can cause compacting and make it harder for the worms to 'work' and move around and through.

So sprinkling of any additional insulation materials with each feeding of scraps will keep your worms, warm and happy and keep the worm farm productive.

❄️In very cold areas that reach towards the 4 to 0 degrees and below, many people have successfully used a simple sheet of bubble wrap, to insulate around the exterior of their domestic Worm Farms. ❄️

(not blocking the airflow of the worm farm) in addition to adding the recommended materials for insulation, as mentioned.

Should you have an concerns, queries and or questions, you are welcome to contact us via WhatsApp.

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"How many worms are in the bag?"We have changed our ways of packaging our worms, from a more commercial style of packagi...
13/08/2024

"How many worms are in the bag?"

We have changed our ways of packaging our worms, from a more commercial style of packaging in plastic tubs, to a more economical, environmentally friendly solution of doubled paper bags.

Why did we change? -

The tubs may give a customer; the visual appeal of seeing a tub dense with wriggling worms BUT we found the long term effect of packaging the worms in this way, caused multiple issues for the worms
- we found it put stress on the worms
(which in turn can lead to the worms taking longer to establish and settle in their new homes)

- the worms were more susceptible to temperature changes, light exposure, ventilation issues during transport, leading to stress and the possibility of death.

- the paper bags allow the worms to have ventilation, light protection and doesn't restrict movement of all the creatures in the bag.

- egg casings are less likely to get damaged due to allowance of movement.

- the worms thrive in their current environment in the established ecosystem of our worms. Harvesting the worms with this establishment allows for them to continue their work rather than start again from 'scratch'.

- the packaging allows us to send ALL and MORE of the 'good stuff' WITH the worms!
Allowing a continued ecosystem and vermiculture to thrive in their new home, whether that's a new worm farm or existing one.

- Using the paper bags allows us to send worms and ecosystem matter; that contains egg casings, all ages of worms and not only the adults. So we feel their is more BANG for your buck.

- the paper bags are extra food for the worms once they reach their new homes. So no waste.

- the bags allow us to send QUANTITY and QUALITY making us feel satisfied that we are supplying what we would want is we were the customer.

Each bag of worms that we sell - (whether it's the bag of worms that come standard with each worm farm set up) or the bag that is sold separately- is of equal quantity and quality.

We harvest an approximate 500ml tub of worms that can be equated to an approximate 500g of worms and or 800 to 1000 worms
(We don't count our worms, as it's disruptive to them and we have worked on weight and estimation through experience)
In ADDITION to that quantity of worms; is the ecosystem matter, vermicompost and other organisms that they thrive in and all this together fills a bag and sets the customer up for success!

A worm bag or BAG 'O WORMS' 😉 comes standard with each worm farm set up and sold seperately for replenishing existing or homemade worm farms is R250.

For queries and orders, please whatsapp us on 083 544 5508 and note payment and collection is from our home in Waterfall.

We do have mobile card facilities for convenience.

"Why are my worms trying to escape?" We often get queries regarding worms up on the sides or lids of the worm farms and ...
13/08/2024

"Why are my worms trying to escape?"

We often get queries regarding worms up on the sides or lids of the worm farms and although it may seem they are trying to 'escape,' that is not the case, thankfully 😉

When you open your worm farms and see worms clustered, twisted up or hanging out on the sides or lids of the farm, don't panic, they aren't leaving you... they are hanging out to find a mate or mates to mate with.

So if they are clustered or clinging to the rim, sides or lid, ypu can simply put them back into the main worm farm if they are in danger of falling out when they sense light or movement when you open the farm (such as if they are on the rim of the farm)

But if they are on the sides (INSIDE walls of the farm) and not in danger of being squished while harvesting or rotating your worm tower bowls - then leave them there and they will go back when they are ready.

Just some brag pics of the beauty of the vermiculture process, we love what we do and adore the colours of our little wo...
11/08/2024

Just some brag pics of the beauty of the vermiculture process, we love what we do and adore the colours of our little working worms

And for added cuteness - the teeny tiny snails that seem to adore our worm farms but not our veggies. I don't have an id...
11/08/2024

And for added cuteness - the teeny tiny snails that seem to adore our worm farms but not our veggies. I don't have an identification on these little ones yet - but they seem to be enjoying their homes in our worm farms all the same

Some more visitors to the worm farms, are spiders..... as many may feel a shiver with the mere mention of our 8 legged f...
11/08/2024

Some more visitors to the worm farms, are spiders..... as many may feel a shiver with the mere mention of our 8 legged friends, they are a part of most worm farms and a beneficial buddy at best. They do a great job of reducing 'pest' insects in your worm farms such as common flies and fruit flies ( fruit flies happen and aren't essentially a bad bug in a worm farm, but more of a nuisance to the worm FARMER when lifting the lid and getting a face full of excited fruit flies) FYI - the fruit fly larvae aren't a problem either, as they too break down the food waste)
BUT fruit flies can then move onto fruit nearby in your garden, so add dry matter ontop of the food waste if your fruit flies are higher in numbers, in your worm farm.

Allowing your friendly neighbourhood spiders to exist in your worm farms and garden will also reduce fruit flies.
Most of the spiders in worm farms are the thing legged, large abdomen kind that tend to roost on the inside of lids with their wrapped prey and or egg sacks and the fuzzier, baboon spider looking ones that you may see scurrying around in the food waste, catching and snacking on earwigs and other bugs.
(I don't know spider names, although I like to name mine Fred and Gary)

The Black soldier fly larvae - also a very common site in the vermiculture Worm farms and a friend, not foe.They are slo...
11/08/2024

The Black soldier fly larvae - also a very common site in the vermiculture Worm farms and a friend, not foe.

They are slow moving, slow composting larvae of the black soldier fly, they are attracted by the subtle scent of the decomposing food waste from the worm farms.
They co-exist in the worm farms and assist with the breakdown of the food waste, organic and recyclable matter.
They pupate and will slowly wiggle upward to then hatch out to become BSF (Black soldier flies) and so the cycle continues.
BSF resemble a wasp almost but are non-harmful, pollinator friendly, pest control that help your garden and worm farm.
Many reptile and chicken enthusiasts breed BSF as a means of protein for their pets.

Following on the theme of identifying some interesting and beneficial bugs in your worm - first we have the EARWIG - the...
11/08/2024

Following on the theme of identifying some interesting and beneficial bugs in your worm - first we have the EARWIG - these little guys are 'dime a dozen' in our worm farms and will be in your farms too.

Their natural habitat is damp, dark places where they can feed on decomposing organic matter and hunt for insects with a palate for composting matter.
Usually commonly found under a rock in the shade or in your compost heap etc.

They are beneficial in that they too adore rotting, composting organic matter and food waste, as your worms do.
They are not harmful to the worms, eggs or process and can be helpful in hunting non-beneficial insects such as roaches amd compost mites.

They often feed on spring-hopper insects and and clean up a few compost mites along the way. They eat the dead and decomposing worms and insects, assisting with the clean up and composting process of a worm farm.

Although they do have pincers on their rears, these are primarily used to fend off predators, battle other males for dominance and to hunt live insects. They can give a 'pinch' but it it not painful or venomous at all and more likely will happen if they are trying to get you to drop them.

(Personally I have had them stuck under a ring on my finger and even under my watch strap, without any 'pinching' occurring.)

They will scurry away into the organic matter as soon as light hits them and are quite quick and shy of human hands.

11/08/2024

"What is this bug, in my worm farm?"

Some interesting and some creepy looking life forms occur naturally in many, if not all worm farms. It is an ecosystem that feeds more than just the red wriggler earthworms and relies on all the beneficial bugs, regardless of how many may be 'creeped out' by these creepy crawly friends..

The next few posts will be looking at and troubleshooting just a few of the extra creatures that do; or will eventually exist in your worm farm and how you should feel about them.

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