One of my missions as a homemaker is to enable and ensure my family eats healthily and knows what is food good for our bodies. Juicing and fresh fruits have since become staples in our lives, and rarely one day passes without a juice or fruit for us.
Since the beginning of 2014, I set out to live more responsibly and sustainably, trying to incorporate the 3Rs into my lifestyle - reduce, reuse, recycle.
Juicing, though good for our bodies, generate a lot of wastage in the form of pulp. There was a time when I tried to use those pulps in our other food such as soup, but the amount of pulp we generate from juicing daily is simply too much for us to eat!! Hence I explored ways and means to use the pulps. Which brought me to the world of composting and vermicomposting.
Through composting or vermicomposting, I can reduce my kitchen waste, and at the same time, create fertilizer for our plants.. Although I do not have green fingers, looking at the plants Ma occasionally adds for her cooking convenience and Pa lovingly waters everyday, I can almost envisage the day where I can juz walk to the plants and see which ones are ready to be harvested and eaten! Or juz readily pluck off some herbs or spices from our plants to add to our food in the kitchen.. So you see, I am looking forward to the days when we will have lots of food plants and therefore a real need for natural fertilizers!! (^_^)
Between composting and vermicomposting, the former takes a longer time and hence a larger space as compared with the latter. I began to read up on the main characters in vermicomposting - the earthworms. I also tried to find out how to build a viable home for these worms in the confines of our hdb flat. Surprisingly, I realized there are many local Singaporeans out there who have been doing and blogging this! There are also some local suppliers of earthworms suitable for our climate!
Not willing to spend a bomb on the vermicomposting box available from some local worm suppliers, I ordered my box online. Thereafter I have procrastinated on the purchase of earthworms for some reason or other..
Until Victor grew quite fed up and literally made me call up a worm supplier in front of him!! Well, that works. And before long, we have ordered 200 grams of earthworms for $50, to be collected on the first working day of the following week!!
On a Monday morning, 10 March, I drove home with an open ziploc bag full of earthworms and earth!! Vic asked me if that bag indeed held 200 grams of worms. Hahaa!! I wouldn't know!! Juz like the many purchases from blog shops, it is based on trust, I guess..
When I brought Qi home after school, she immediately sprang into action fixing up my worm home with the accompanying instruction manual! By late afternoon, the worms have been settled into their new home!!
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