A tale for children – Cedrick the worm goes it alone to discover waiting spent coffee riches within the compost heap! Continue reading »
Tag Archives: compost
How to Teach Kids About Using a Compost
Composting can be a fun activity for you and your kids if done well. On top of that, you get to teach them to be environmentally conscious individuals. In this post, we’ll be giving you a few tips on how you can encourage your kids to get into the habit of composting. The first thing … Continue reading »
How to make Money from Used Coffee Grounds – Part 1
Drink your coffee and make money too? There seems to be a mental process by which enterprising individuals come across the good old ‘used coffee grounds goldmine question’… “How is it that we generate millions of tonnes of used coffee grounds a year that go to landfill, and no one is trying to make money … Continue reading »
Recycle The Waste
Returning Waste Back Into the Ground For those of you that regularly follow this blog (and why not!), you would know how much more productive my garden has become these past 12 months or so. One of the reasons for this is because the soil is in excellent condition, and to get that condition requires large quantities … Continue reading »
Anaerobic Digestion: An Alternative To Composting
Hi all – I wanted to introduce this post with a quick note because it has been written just for Ground to Ground by a guest writer. It is a topic I have little experience with myself, and having reviewed the content, including videos, it is something I’m wanting to try for myself. Well it’s … Continue reading »
Car Tires for Worm Farm and Compost Bin
How to Build a Better Worm Farm With all the coffee grounds and vegetable scraps coming back to my place, there came a point when I was running out of places to put it all. Hard to believe, what with 150 kilos of coffee grounds and rotten vegetables coming in each week (and then all … Continue reading »
Leaves For Compost
Collecting Leaves For A Better Garden Dried leaves are an important ingredient for making quality compost, and even better is that you can collect for yourself as much as you will ever need. For anyone close to deciduous trees around Autumn, dried out leaves are literally left at your feet. This post is not so … Continue reading »
Winter Composting for Spring Success on Organic Authority
My most recent guest blogging post all about Winter Composting is sitting happily on Organic Authority, a leading green site. This was a challenging and rewarding piece to construct, as they were very specific about their target audience. It is good to be pressed as a writer so very happy I got it done. Might … Continue reading »
Collecting Used Coffee Grounds (UCG)
Gardeners that Collect Used Coffee Grounds It is great to see what is happening in the gardens of those dedicated individuals that collect coffee grounds for compost and fertilizer. Amalie is one of the Ground to Ground volunteers in Melbourne, and I had a chance to ask her about gardening with the use of coffee … Continue reading »
