For the next growing season I want to 1) stop relying exclusively on store bought soil and 2) stop wasting all my food scraps. I’ve started looking into vermiculture (and in particular a multi-tray DIY-solution), and I am currently looking for some good resources (books, in-depth article or video series or online courses) that can help me learn, and I was hoping that people here would like to share some resources they have found to help them on their journey to become composting masters.
I don’t only want to understand how to do this in practice, but also how any choices along the way impact soil quality and how to ensure I have soil of good quality for my home garden. So I appreciate any pointers to more general soil-related resources.
To get mine started i used a compost starter tea (good microbes) and collected all the food scraps from my kitchen at work (we were already composting on site, I just diverted a few crates for my own) so you can ask your chef at your favorite restaurant if they compost, and if they do and can divert some for you, provide them with a bin for your scraps and pick it up when you agree to.
Also chicken poop… excellent for compost.
Nice idea checking with restaurants. But it sounds like you end up getting quite a lot of compost this way? I will likely be unable to have too big an operation, but my efforts can be spread across to sites (one at home on my balcony and one with a friend with more outdoor space, though no garden in the classical sense).