We were still throwing away our food waste until a couple of months ago and it all went with the landfill stuff. As Mum was moving, she had a wormery which she used with her nursery kids but the worms had long since departed. As it hadn't been used for ages I cleaned it and relieved Mum of its presence.

This simple bin-like contraption was about to reduce the amount we sent to landfill by 70%. In fact, when you start seperating the food waste, (like they always used to) you suddenly realise how little you use your waste bin. Our little family of two and a half, (Kyla is only seven) now only has one rubbish bin bag for the landfill every three weeks.

The benefits don't stop there. We will have a great source of organic fertilizer for the garden as those worms get worming. The worms breakdown the left overs and peelings down to a concentrated liquid and a tap at the bottom releases the fluid.

If there is one thing every household with some space outside should get it's one of these.

Loads more stuff can go in a wormery compared to the normal compost heap. We basically put anything in there that the worms would be able to munch through and they then do the business and within a couple of months you'll have plenty of concentrated organic feed.

I'm going to be stocking these within the next few weeks, I'll keep the blog posted.

I love worms

alex