As delivery partners in the Westmorland and Furness Green Enterprise Hub, CAfS have been able to support small and medium enterprises with tailored carbon reduction and sustainability support. “Our mission is to empower organisations to reduce their carbon footprint, drive innovation, and unlock the benefits of a cleaner, greener future.”
One of the businesses we’ve been working with is Alpacally Ever After, a social enterprise that rehomes alpacas and llamas from all over the country and give them a wonderful new home with the very best of care, while bringing people in touch with the landscape and the natural world through outstanding alpaca and llama experiences, their sites are accessible to all.
Anna inoculates with worms
With a basecamp that boasts an amazing farm café and shop and a beautiful new community growing space to provide organic supplies to the cafe, they are an ideal site to demonstrate food waste composting, utilising the power of Alpaca dung and worms, increasing the reach of “Vermiculture Cumbria” to farmers, growers and enterprise.
Look out for a video of the workshop on Alpacally’s Youtube channel.
Alpacally Ever After have been monitoring their food waste over time and their average daily waste is 17kg. They hope to reduce their CO2e by using vermiculture for all their kitchen waste.
17kg of food waste / day equates roughly to 32.3kg of Co2-e emissions or the equivalent of 2.88 days of electricity consumption for one household.
We are working with Anna de la Vega, who set up The Urban Worm CIC, Anna is a vermiculture expert with years of international experience delivering training and consultancy on vermiculture food waste solutions to tackle this huge global issue.
And there’s more! Read here about: Vermiculture Cumbria! Worms and the field to fork journey. – CAfS
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