We Love Teaching People To Compost!

The Box Of Life has been advocating for composting since 2019 and we've been helping people do it in urban spaces - without smells, rodents, or annoying flies. If you're curious and want to learn more, join our community and hear from others who are doing it..

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Compost Starter Bundle

4 Easy Steps To Using A Worm Farm

  • Collect and freeze your kitchen scraps - avoid meat, dairy and oils

  • Feed equal part scraps & damp paper/cardboard shreds to worms

  • Worms will eat everything in 3-4 weeks and turn it into castings

  • Harvest castings from the worm box and use in your garden

See How It Works

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Founding Story

Hi, I'm Akil, beside me is Purrcy, and I'm holding worm castings made from my food scraps!

I started composting to keep Purrcy from getting to the scraps in the trash and fell in love with my worm bin after seeing how cool it was! I want others to experience the same joy. Recycling kitchen scraps into plant food is SO EMPOWERING. Not to mention how good it is for our soil (and mental) health. 

The Box Of Life is my social enterprise that runs classroom programs, empowers local communities (currently in Ottawa and Kelowna), manufactures locally in Ottawa, and we want to have an impact from coast to coast to coast.

If you're looking for ways to do that in your community, we would love to help you do that through our Partnership Program.

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Why You'll Love Vermicomposting

Creates 🌱 food

Worm castings are MAGIC fertilizer for your plants. It's a natural boost of life to help you grow the best tomatoes ever.

Less 🗑️

Divert half of your trash into a worm farm, reducing fruit flies and smelly bins.

Quick win 🥳

It only takes two minutes every day to compost and you'll love turning it into a ritual.

Feeding food scraps into a wooden worm composting bin for indoor use

A fun task🏃🏽‍♂️‍➡️

Ok hear us out, you'll really enjoy feeding and observing your wormy ecosystem!

Feel 🥰 good

Composting is such a win - reduces waste and creates healthy soil - major karma points earned!