Reviewing the existing mahi in this space

This is a brief post in case you're interested about the composting and gardening mahi that was going on, on the Pukeahu/Wellington campus prior to any Campus Co-Lab work. * This post will be updated as we learn of more info in this space.

A few individual staff members and groups of staff have set up their own composting gigs around campus. These include the COCA Block 1 kitchen staff and the Fab Lab Composting system. 

COCA Block 1 Staff:

• There are large bins outside Block 1 which are fed from the COCA Block 1 Staff Kitchen.
• Finished compost is put it in buckets and staff take it home for their gardens twice a year.
• They keep worms in this compost bin. They don’t add coffee grinds. They add dry leaves – it can get a bit wet. They also add EM as well (effective micro organisms –  bokashi from common sense). They only have 2 bins and 3 would be better to have one active and two resting.

Fab Lab Compost - Resilience Project:

• The Resilience project proposes solutions and related services for minimizing waste within communities. In particular, it seeks to take steps towards a resilient community by engaging people at all levels of a community ecosystem, and develop the resources to support for them to work towards a common waste reduction goal. (Info taken from their writing on the side of the Fab Lab building)
• The Resilience Project: Worm Farm. Began in 2013 to work with the Kuratini Marae, collecting food waste on campus and the untreated wood dust from the CNC machines to combine in two kinds of composting units. After months of testing, they found the rotating compost bin to be the best option in the short term. (Info taken from their writing on the side of the Fab Lab building)
• There are now three compost bins at the Fab Lab building and the finished compost is fed into a raised bed vege garden nearby. This garden is maintained by the Massey Gardener, Sue Kino.