Kookaburra Worm Farms in Gin Gin, Queensland | Agricultural cooperative

Kookaburra Worm Farms

Locality: Gin Gin, Queensland

Address: PO Box 343 4671 Gin Gin, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.kookaburrawormfarms.com.au

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25.01.2022 Does anybody use worm tea or worm cast liquid to fertilise their plants with? If you do, please comment on your experiences? Thank you in advance!

25.01.2022 Just a few quick tips for looking after your worms now that Spring has sprung. Watch out for the warming sun. Place all black worm farms out of direct sun. Very easy to cook all the worms when the sun hits a black bin. With the warming weather the worms will want to start breeding rapidly. Give them plenty of "browns" cardboard, brown leaves or grass etc. or even better a bit of horse or cow manure to stimulate breeding and a suitable place for the worms to lay their eggs.

25.01.2022 Well summer is nearly over and WHAT a summer its been. Hot, hotter and the hottest. After 16 years in the worm business here in Queensland, this has been the hottest summer that we have had to contend with. Apologies to all the people who have ordered worms from us and are still waiting for their orders to arrive. We simply cannot ship live worms during this extreme heat. We monitor the temps all along the shipping route and central NSW has just been baking hot for weeks on end. Hope they get a respite from the heat soon! Our worms have been doing great as they live in climate controlled conditions, lucky buggers

24.01.2022 Well here we are in the middle of the silly season, leading up to Xmas. Why do we call it the silly season? Besides everyone getting super busy, perhaps the term comes from the huge amount of money we spend on Xmas gifts that are more often than not, just junk that gets thrown into the garbage bin once they break or people loose interest in them.... This time of year is really really BAD for the environment. So much waste happening, without a thought for the environment! How about this year buying a Xmas gift that is great for the environment, lasts for years and keeps the receiver interested and aware of their environmental responsibility? What better gift than a worm farm and some worms? And we have the worlds best and simplest worm farms available. Our own designed Little Rotters. Order now from our web site store for delivery before Xmas, and do something great for the environment and put a smile on the dial of your loved ones .

24.01.2022 And on the topic of sutainable fishing with worms, please don't confuse sustainably grown worms with "wild harvested" scrub worms. Did you know that scrub worms are electrocuted out of the ground in our National and State Forests? This causes untold damage to the soils and kills much of our native animals such as frogs, lizards, small marsupials and of course the microbiome of the soil.

22.01.2022 Kookaburra Worm Farms is hiring!!! Due to unprecedented growth, we need a farm labourer for 3-4 days per week. If you live in the Gin Gin area and are a team player, able to work with minimal supervision and keep going all day, give us a call or message.

21.01.2022 This is the new direction that Kookaburra Worm Farms is heading. We believe that adding the right types of worms in combination with custom made liquid worm casts, can accelerate the conversation of degrading farming soils into regenerative soils. Ask us how!!!

21.01.2022 To all our wonderful customers who have been trying to contact us by our landline phone. Please don’t use this landline, it doesn’t work. Telstra diverted all calls to a message bank months ago, but we can’t access this message bank. And now our phone doesn’t ring. Catch 22. Thanks Telstra!!! Please contact us via Facebook, Messenger or email. Thanx for your understanding and continued support.

20.01.2022 Question: What is the major factor that determines how much food/waste worms can eat (other than the number of worms lol)?

20.01.2022 Now that winter is upon us your worm farm will do better if kept warm. What are some simple ways to keep a worm farm warm in winter? 1/ Wrap a blanket or carpet around or over it. 2/ Use biological heat by feeding your worms some hot compost. Use only small amounts in small worm farms and larger amounts in larger worm farms. 3/ if your worm farm is portable, it can be placed in a warmer sheltered sunny spot in your garden or patio.

20.01.2022 Further to our upcoming series on Living with worms. We really appreciate the thousands of people who have bought worms from us. A great big THANK YOU, to all of you!!! We are really interested in what you are doing with your worms, and are particularly interested in what problems you had that the worms are helping to solve for you. We would like to conduct a quick questionnaire as to why you chose to get worms from us and what problems are being solved for you by the worms? GO!

19.01.2022 Now that the heat of summer is right upon us, here are some hints to keep your worms from cooking in the heat. If you’ve got one of those black plastic worm farms like a Reln Worm Cafe or Can O Worms, first thing is to keep it in permanent heavy shade. Even a tiny bit of summer sun can turn the inside into an oven!!! Then if your worm bedding is still getting too hot and your worms are starting to crawl around on the surface or balling up, you could try a Coolgardie Safe setu...p. This involves drapping a large cotton or hessian sheet over your worm bin and dunking the bottom of the sheet into a bucket or tub of water. The sheet will wick the water up and the heat will evaporate the water. This leaves much cooler air under the sheet, up to 10 degrees cooler!!! Also known as evaporative cooling. Don’t water your worms in the heat!!! Water transmits heat much better than dry bedding. The cooling effect of water is only short lived as the wet worm bedding will rapidly absorb the heat in the air and get too hot for worms very quickly. Instead, try using a frozen bottle of water placed on the surface of the worm bed. Replace with another frozen bottle, when the first one thaws out etc etc. Or you could just buy one of our Little Rotters and never worry about your worms cooking in the heat again See more

17.01.2022 A quick thank you to all the people who accepted my invitation to like our Facebook page. Thank you! You’re all gonna be in for a bit of a treat as we start to develop our living with worms tidbits. Stay tuned for the first instalment coming soon!

13.01.2022 Always thought that worms were rather important Great read for all you wormaholics!

07.01.2022 Amazing what a simple program on TV can achieve!!! The ABC TV program "War on Waste" has made our sales go up almost 3 fold. It seems to have woken a sleeping giant, meaning that people are awakening to their own responsibilities in reducing waste and recycling their kitchen scraps using worms

07.01.2022 Hi Folks, We’ve been flat chat over the past 6 months and haven’t had a chance to post new info. So, now that winter is upon us and we have a minute or two of free time, here’s a tip on how to make worm tea simply and easily. First, I’ve got some bad news for the folks out there with multi-tiered worm farms like the Can O Worms, Worm Cafes or Vermihuts. These worm farms are designed to collect excess liquid in the bottom trays and they call this worm tea. Often this liquid is... not pure worm tea, it’s liquid leachate from the excess water in food you feed to the worms. Often it is just rotten veggie liquid, and it’s actually bad for your garden. A rule of thumb is - if it smells bad it is bad, if it smells ok then it is ok. A better way to make worm tea is to collect a handful of pure worm cast from your worm farm and dissolve it in a bucket or watering can of water. Pour immediately over your plants. Simple, easy and works extremely well with great consistent results!!! Worm cast tea made in this method cannot be made too strong. It will always work very well with your plants. See more

02.01.2022 What a great educational tool for our kids. Wonderful idea to teach kids the benefits of farming with worms and all the other goody creatures of the soil. Well worth pledging some dollars to this worthwhile fundraising campaign!!!

02.01.2022 Cool way to see how worms directly help people (Please feel free to share under Creative Commons rules, acknowledging the source.)

02.01.2022 Hey folks, We’ve hit over 3000 likes, yipee yikes Wow, thank you to all our customers and friends who have become part of our tribe!!! You are the very reason why we do what we do. Thank you all sooooooo very much

01.01.2022 Bokashi versus worms!!! Which is the better way to go for a household new to recycling their kitchen scraps? I'll try to make this post with as little bias as possible, but remember I am a worm farmer! Bokashi involves placing your kitchen scraps in a small bin on your kitchen bench. You then add either a liquid spray or a grain that adds fermenting microbes to the scraps. This is meant to stop the scraps from smelling bad and ferments or sours them, rather like making yoghu...rt or sour kraut. Once your bin is full, you take it out to your garden bed and bury the contents in the soil. Presumably worms then get into the fermented scraps and convert them into soil. In practice, my experience is that the Bokashi bin still smells. Not a really bad smell, but a strong fermenting smell, very yeasty. This smell also attracts the small vinegar flies, which can become quite a nuisance. There is also quite a bit of work burying the scraps and we had to dig quite a deep hole to prevent rats digging them up. Also, without adding extra worms to the hole, we found that the scraps were still intact months later. So now, what is different with using worms in a small domestic worm farm? Many people place a Worm Cafe or Can O Worms either in a corner of their kitchen or in the laundry. People worry about the potential for bad smells, but in our experience there is far less smell from a worm farm than a bokashi bin. Worm cast is a natural deodoriser and the only smell is an earthy one when the lid is open. The vinegar fly problem is about the same as bokashi bins, but can be easily reduced by adding plenty of shredded paper to your worm bin. Once the worm bin trays are full, you already have 100% high quality topsoil, that doesn't need to be buried, won't attract rats and can be used as a fertiliser around all your plants. The potential problem of killing the worms is ever present, but is minimised by keeping your worm bin indoors. Bokashi can also go wrong and really stinks when it does. To me, a worm farm wins hands down over a Bokashi bin. They just don't compare! See more