Five Senses Coffee Blog

We’ve got worms!

The worms have finally arrived at Ulian Murni! After some particularly dirty work to get the worm farm established (you’d really need a scratch and sniff computer monitor to get the full experience) we now have some worms actively breaking down the discarded coffee pulp. It’ll take a while for the worm population to build to the levels where they’re getting through large volumes of pulp. Worms eat about half their weight in food every day and their digestive tracts enrich the compost with elevated levels of nutrients. The resultant compost will be spread back under the coffee trees and is set to be one of the key factors in our initiative to assist the farmers to return to fully organic agriculture.

We've got worms!