Composting with Worms Workshop

🪱 Worms, Waste & Wonderful Soil
A Hands-On Compost Worm Workshop with Floyd Dargatz
📅 Date: Saturday May 31, 2025
🕓 Time: 1:00-2:00pm
📍 Location: Holden Lake Farm & Garden
💰 Cost: Free
Come learn the basics of compost worm keeping in this relaxed, interactive session with a farmer scaling up from tubs to yards of worm-filled goodness.
👉 Bring gloves if you want to handle worms (optional)
👉 Or come to observe, ask questions, and learn
We’ll talk about:
Worm systems: tubs, trays, towers & more


Composting styles: hot, bokashi, static piles, Johnson-Su


What to feed worms, how often, and why


Making sense of compost cycles—without overthinking it


This isn’t a lecture—it’s a down-to-earth, open-ended conversation for gardeners, homesteaders, and anyone curious about composting.
Your guide? A compost-loving farmer with a passion for making great soil from scraps—leaves, logs, coffee grounds, manure, you name it.
Come ready to learn!

You may also like the following events from Holden Lake Farm:

• This Saturday, 24th May, 01:00 pm, Custom Planter MAKE & TAKE Workshop with Carolyn Bouma in Gabriola
• Next month, 7th June, 01:00 pm, Pest Management Workshop with Brad Vandermey in Gabriola
• Next month, 8th June, 01:00 pm, Bits About Bats Workshop in Gabriola

Also check out other Workshops in Gabriola.