COURSE OVERVIEW:

Training Presenters: Steve Morriss (CEO Circular Food) & David Wyatt (Vermiculture Manager)

Cost: (AUSD)$1200 inc GST. For each additional attendee add (AUSD)$400.00 per person.To be paid in full at time of booking seminar training date.

Course hours: 8.30am - 5pm Australian eastern standard time.Location: Circular Food, 105 Hume Hwy, Somerton, Victoria, Australia.Morning, afternoon tea & lunch included.

Included: • Training manual supplied for future reference. • pH meter • Temperature probe • A license to build (duplicate) the Circular Food mini pit worm farm. Building plans included. • Ongoing phone or email support when required.

1-DAY VERMICULTURE TRAININGIntroduction to worm farming

On completion of this training course, participants will be capable of setting up the mini pit, and maintaining it correctly.

This course is best suited to serious home worm farmers who wish to produce product or worms on a hobby basis. The mini pit is an ideal size to take house-hold food waste from

a 3-6 person household.

1-DAY VERMICULTURE TRAININGIntroduction to worm farming

COURSE OUTLINE:

Informative session - Tour and intro• Informative tour of Australia's largest urban worm farm.• 1-hour slide show on worm farming basics

Morning tea

Informative session - Assembling your worm farm• Slide show on how to assemble a mini-pit• Demonstration on setting up a new worm bed, bedding ingredients, inoculating compost worms into a new bed (including how many to use for a specific area and enhanced breeding techniques.)

Lunch

Information session - Identifying worm types• How to achieve the best results depending on your intended food source, location and climate. • Identifying commercial worm varieties - and identifying pests and threats to worms.• Identifying worm capsules (eggs) through their various stages prior to hatching.

Afternoon tea

Demonstrative session - Looking after your worm farm• Demonstration of feeding the worms including, what, when, how to & how much food to apply and when the correct time it is to feed again.• Monitoring pH in worm beds and adjusting pH when necessary. • Watering - why, when, how much and water quality. • Harvesting compost worms - why and when is the correct time to harvest or remove worms.• How to use worm bi-products, solid castings & liquid bio-fert, to improve soil and plant health.

Questions and further discussion.