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Spring Soils: Impacts and Oppportunities

Spring Soils: Impacts and Oppportunities

Spring in New Zealand is a time of profound change beneath our feet as soil temperatures rise and rain patterns shift. Understanding these changes is vital for every gardener and farmer.; here's Read more

Home Worm Farm Do's and Dont's

Home Worm Farm Do's and Dont's

Many of you have a worm farm at home and we've recently had some questions recently about how to look after your worm farm at home. While we operate worm farms at large scale, many of the principles Read more

Meet our Little Buddies

Meet our Little Buddies

Here at Little Buddies, we use Eisenia fetida (eye-SEN-ee-ah FEH-tid-ah) AKA Red Wiggler's or Tiger worms for our worm farm practices. Of the over 9000 known breeds of worms, Eisenia fetida are best Read more

Debunking the "Worm Wees" Myth

Debunking the "Worm Wees" Myth

Every time we strike up a conversation around our worm farming practices, folks will excitedly tell us about how keen they are for some "worm wees" and we then educate folks on how worm farms work Read more

2021 Recap and 2022 Goals

2021 Recap and 2022 Goals

2021 Recap What a year its been. In 2021 we started the mission to "Divert organic waste from landfill and return it to the land via worm farms and environmentally responsible processes". We Read more

The #1 reason your worm farm fails

The #1 reason your worm farm fails

Why is my worm farm dying? We've all been there. You have a worm farm, and feel super great that you're doing your part to save the planet. But pretty soon you end up with a dead worm farm, and big Read more

Carbon Sequestration

Carbon Sequestration

It is well known that soil organic matter (SOM) include improves soil quality through: increased retention of water and nutrientsimproved soil structure which helps reduce erosion These Read more

Do You Sell Vermicast or Worm Tea?

Do You Sell Vermicast or Worm Tea?

Do you sell your vermicast/worm tea? Soon! We are as excited about providing high quality worm castings to the Waikato public as you are; diverting waste from landfill and returning those nutrients Read more

Windrows vs Continuous Flow Reactors

Windrows vs Continuous Flow Reactors

There are many ways that vermiculture can be managed. The simplest of these methods is known as windrowing. Organic matter is laid in rows, typically around 1.5 meters wide, and about half a meter Read more

Why Worm Farming?

Why Worm Farming?

We believe that a combination of Hot Composting (also known as thermophilic composting) and worm farming is the most efficient means of breaking down organic waste and returning it to the soil. Hot Read more

Little Buddies

Vermiculture & Waste Reduction Services
Located in Cambridge, New Zealand

We'd love to hear from you
Marty Pine
Phone: +64 21 961 019
Email: info@littlebuddies.nz