Coffee Grounds used for Gardening We are heading into Summer time now in Australia, and I wanted to show you an update of my garden and some of the things that are growing. It is great to come out to the garden and see the quality of the soil, most of which has been improved … Continue reading »
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Coffee Grounds Collecting at the Office – Communicating the Initiative
Collecting Coffee Grounds – Communications Continuing on now to part two of how to start Collecting Coffee Grounds from the Office with work colleagues. The following are a series of communications that will come in handy. All of them have been field tested and the response has been great. Where you see these markers [LOCATION] … Continue reading »
How to Create New Earth with Food Scraps and Coffee Grounds
I speak to people about coffee grounds for their plants often. Maybe too often. Maybe in every conversation…. Let me think about that and I may even be able to write a happy Spring time poem for it. Oops, too late. Roses are Red Violets are Blue but treat them with coffee and changes their … Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds Collecting at the Office – Getting Started
Collecting coffee grounds from the office This is going to be useful for all of you that work people, sit in meetings all day, and do all that collaborating. I’m lucky that no one has come up to my desk to yell ‘You have 2 minutes to innovate dammit!’, although I have at times come … Continue reading »
Using Coffee Grounds for Compost and Fertilizer
Coffee Grounds in Coffee I had the pleasure of creating a new vegetable plot over the weekend, and took a few happy snaps of how the soil was prepared. This will be plot number 3, much smaller than plots 1 and 2, and will be used this Spring/Summer to grow watermelon, tomatoes, and sweet corn. … Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds and Worms
I have written a number of posts about the benefits of coffee grounds in attracting worms to your garden, and then helping to make them them nice and healthy. If you want to review any of my previous articles, this is the link to the list of Ground to Ground articles, everything you wanted to … Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds Good for Compost and Google!
Ground Coffee at Google It had to happen you know, that there was enough Ground to Ground material on the blog that this could go to a wider audience. There is a great deal of appeal for making use of coffee grounds for compost and the garden, and based on the number of hits I … Continue reading »
Compost with Worms and Coffee Grounds
Worms and Ground Coffee I have been busy getting the various compost collections ready for use in the garden. Fortunately, combining coffee grounds into the compost, along with leafmould, and in this case, wood chips, has given a lovely product that will go very well on my new vegetable plot. This supply of compost made … Continue reading »
What to do With Coffee Grounds
It had to happen sooner or later, the wonderful feeling of making a difference has spread to a whole new building. I am very proud to report that Jonathan Mackley is now collecting used coffee grounds from an office building in the Docklands, Melbourne. Jonathan is a project professional at a large financial services company, … Continue reading »