Worm Farming
Giving us a hand with recycling food waste
Lane Cove River Tourist Park is committed to enhancing and sustaining the environment in and around the Park.
The Tourist Park has a series of worm farms in place with plans to eventually have a worm farm attached to every recycle station (18) in total.
Compost worms break down food scraps to create castings. Castings are great for the gardens around the park and the native plants are OK with this type of compost.
In addition, worm farms creat some really great liquid fertiliser that once slightly diluted makes a fantastic organic plant spray.
To get some info for starting your own worm farm, click here to visit the Worm Factory.
- Carbon Reduction
- Water Management
- Habitat Projects
- Plants and animals
- Eco Tourism
- Maintaining our
environment - Future scientists
- Worm farming
- Sustainability Education
What do Worms Eat?
Worms like a varied selection of organic matter. Their preferred diest is fruit peelings, vegetable scraps and peelings, hair clippings, cheese, shredded soaked newspaper, caks and biscuits (limited), crushed egg shells, seaweed, coffee grounds, and tea bags to name but a few.
Above: Tourist Park Worms enjoying scraps left by visitors.
How much food will worms eat?
The level of food consumed in the worm farm depends on the number of worms that live there. Worms it is said will eat up to 50% of their own body weight everyday and will double their population every few months.
The Tourist Park worm farms start with 1,000 worms each. It is estimated that 1,000 worms will consume up to 125 grams of food each day. Of course, once the numbers double, the level of consumption will also double. So it is safe to say that after a couple of months, every worm farm will have the capacity of recycling up to half a kilo of food scraps every day.
Above: Tourist Park Worms Give a Hand to the Environment.
Environment and awards worm farming
