Suswotter Tim Bushell has a dream that many worms in Westbury-on-Trym should feast exclusively on a diet of organic household waste.
A wormery is a bit like a normal compost heap, but is a sealed unit including its own population of tiger worms. Some ordinary compost heaps already have their own tiger worms naturally, otherwise you can obtain a few from a local angling shop.
The worms will eat all kitchen waste, including cooked food, that you care to donate to them along with a roughly equal proportion of other organic garden waste, rapidly turning the whole lot into nutritious compost for your garden. Contrary to popular belief, they are not hard to keep going and do not need to be kept indoors.
In 2013, SusWoT started a project to encourage people to start their own wormery and several local residents gave it a go.
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