Nature’s own system of managing soil health, plant growth and pests & disease has kept Earth flourishing for a very long time. Recently developed and commercially available fertilisers and pesticides are causing increasing damage to our soils and if we don’t return to a regenerative approach to growing our food, we will soon have no food security either on the worldwide scale or in our own gardens.

There really is a universe in the soil, a symbiotic and nutrient cycling relationship between billions of small, tiny and microscopic critters, a relationship that is the foundation of all life on Earth. We CAN grow more food, bigger plants, and healthier crops now by working with Nature’s already perfected processes.

And it’s easy to begin now. Making and using worm compost is not only fast (takes 12 weeks) and straightforward (just add your kitchen scraps), it can have a huge positive impact on soil health in a very short time. Even if you don’t grow anything, you can still recycle your kitchen scraps through a worm composting system and add the finished worm castings to your lawn or give them to a friend who gardens.