Turnip the volume on your garden with fermented fertiliser from this Canberra company
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Indoor plant lovers rejoice, your return-to-the-office extinction event could be averted.
Food2Soil is a female-founded, Canberra-based business taking food at the end of its life and turning it in to fermented fertiliser that give yours plants a new lease on theirs.
Josie Grenfell, who co-founded Food2Soil with Annabelle Schweiger, says the company is built on sustainability, using food waste like coffee grounds as its main ingredient, up-cycled equipment for fermenting and processing the fertiliser, and solar power to run their fertiliser ‘Brewhaus’.
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After having children, Josie was inspired to do something practical to address environmental issues she knew would impact their futures.
“My grandmother hated waste, we were the sort of family that would take a bite out of a chocolate, wrap it up and save it for later.”
“When it was like ‘we can stop food waste, and our soil, and grow better food, and help climate change’, I asked myself ‘why is nobody doing this?’”
Traditional fertilisers are usually chemically based, high in sodium, and microbially dead. This means if you use too much you risk harming the soil, something that you don’t have to worry about with Food2Soil.
The first of its kind in Australia, Josie says Food2Soil is like kombucha for your garden and is based on techniques that have been around for generations. Its low PH level also means you don’t need to worry about any of the bad bacteria showing up unannounced.
“It makes the difference between having dirt or having soil.”
“Anyone who has dug into dirt knows it’s just sandy and dry, but soil is aerated, it’s rich, it’s got worms, slaters, bacteria, fungi and microbes throughout.”
She says that healthy soil is also better at capturing carbon from the atmosphere and makes for better harvests in the veggie garden.
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For more about Food2Soil, or to get your own reusable bottle of fertiliser, visit their website.
