Food scraps from a kitchen caddy being poured into Bioverter.
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Make compost at home to nourish and improve soil

Updated on 28/11/2025 Posted on 17/8/2022

Many of the nutrients plants need for growth can be found in everyday kitchen scraps. These goodies are reusable, but aren’t available to plants without transformation.

Transform kitchen waste into plant food

One way is with chickens. You can feed them vegetable scraps and collect their poo to add as a nitrogen waste in your compost, but raising your own isn’t practical for many urban dwellers.

Another option is worm farming. Fed a strict vegetarian diet, red and tiger worms excrete castings as your reward. Worms, like chickens, need to be looked after, and collecting castings is tedious if you want to rescue the worms from perishing in garden soil.

Nature offers a superior solution with compost microbes. Converting kitchen scraps into compost rewards you with a nourishing soil improver.

Create your own nourishing soil improver

Composting accelerates the way nature returns fallen and dead organic matter to the soil, enriching it. Natural microbes transform organic waste into compost.

Compost is an organic soil improver which excels at keeping soil healthy for plants to thrive.

Tip

The soil enriching qualities of compost is available only after you allow freshly made, immature compost to rest and mature.

Homemade mature compost:

  • Works like a slow-release fertiliser
  • Returns organic matter to soil
  • Increases water retention in soil
  • Has probiotics to promote soil health
  • Helps plant resist disease and pests
  • Gives soil a good crumbly texture

Compost is nutrient-rich when made from nutritious kitchen scraps. Bioverter is an advanced compost bin that is designed to handle kitchen scraps as your main waste feed.

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