If you'd walked into St Margaret's Forever Fields on Thursday afternoon, you'd have found a slightly dusty, slightly tired, but very cheerful crowd tucking into lunch around the trestle tables. It had been a full day. The Community Payback team had spent the day out and about doing what they do: this week that included hauling in the week's coffee ground collections from a couple of our local café partners, plus a decent stack of cardboard that would otherwise have gone straight in the bin....

Our worm wrangler was worn out speaking to dozens of curious people about recycling coffee waste into high-grade fertiliser! The bins are working well. The worms are in. And we've started doing what we said we'd do. It's early days—this is a pilot, after all—but the composting collective at St Margaret's is up and running. We've got our vermicomposting bins set up and the coffee grounds and spent mycellium are already working their way through. We've also expanded into the vermiculture...

If you’ve spent any time in the gardening world lately, you’ve likely heard whispers about Worm Tea. No, it’s not something you’d serve with a biscuit at 4:00 PM, but for your vegetables, it is the ultimate garden superfood. While many UK gardeners are familiar with traditional compost or store-bought chemical pellets, there is still a bit of mystery surrounding worms and the "liquid gold" they help create. At Egino Emerging, we think it’s time to spill the tea on why this natural tonic is a...