The Wormery

In order to process the packaging waste from the farm shop, we soon realised that turning the waste into organic matter compost could actually provide another income stream by selling it in the shop to the very patrons that created the waste in the first place!

Watch the video below for information on the importance of a wormery and how to do it at home:

Townsend Farm Continuous Flow Wormery

Here at Townsend Farm we set about building a continuous flow wormery whereby we could keep adding material to the top and ‘harvesting’ the worm casts from the bottom.