Soil Enrichment Training
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TES have teamed up with Shandon Local Food Group and Royal Edinburgh Community Gardens to offer soil enrichment training using the Greenway system. These two hour sessions will give participants an understanding of composting and the opportunity to build your own wormery. The mid-week sessions are FREE, whilst the Sunday sessions have a small cost (refreshments included). All participants will walk away with a wormery (either made-up or flat pack to assemble at home), some worms, a book all about composting, and an increased knowledge of how to improve the soils in our gardens so they can produce an abundance of home grown food.
The Greenway Hotbox system is very simple to use. The boxes are insulated, so you take your green materials (grass-cuttings, weeds etc) and brown materials (stalks, prunings, cardboard etc), chop them all down as fine as you can make them, mix them up and put into the box.They heat up to about fifty degrees and after two days you turn them. After a week or so the material has really mulched down. Then you can use as a mulch or, even better add to a wormery. The worms munch through all that delicious plant material and pretty well any scraps of food (not meat) you can put in there. After a mere three months you have the most fabulous worm cast compost or vermiculture. The course will be delivered by Sean and will be a genuine pleasure for people who prefer composting to rotting.
Have a look at these videos to give you the low-down on composting and wormeries!
