Sustainability Education: Your students will learn so much about the waste cycle and preserving the planet. They’ll discover where food comes from, how it’s grown sustainably and how to live eco-conscious lives. We strongly believe education is the key to a clean and green future for earth, and what better place to start than in school? Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: By composting your food waste, you're preventing it from ending up in a landfill and producing methane. Instead, it decomposes aerobically (with oxygen), which doesn't produce methane. OK, so the Subpod prevents smells. Smells in compost come from anaerobic conditions. No compost should go anaerobic or it will smell. The thing is no compost system that’s properly managed need go anaerobic. And in the video on starting the SubPod the commentator warns about putting too much compost in the Subpod at the start or it will turn the compost anaerobic and drive away the worms away. The key question have been raised in this discourse and relate to many other issues including worm species of which most people know little. One example will suffice perhaps, colonialism has meant that the eisenia family have spread to many parts including Australia and predominate the worm market here but there is evidence (and my organisation is part of it) that local species are coming into use for composting purposes. Many people think that composting worms are different to other earthworms but they are all essential Annelida though differentiated primarily by the level of the soil in which they thrive. The endogeic being those that occupy the upper levels and hence habituate to worm farms, especially those enclosed above ground. Unfortunately in Australia we have scant knowledge of our native species with Dr Blakemore’s taxonoic expertise having identified around 70 out of an estimated 1000 species. The European and North American understanding runs somewhat deeper than this. We have schools like Lindisfarne Grammar School in Northern New South Wales in Australia, who have set up a large school gardening project and composting system. They've chosen us as their composting partner, and have 42 Subpod installed around their school grounds! Their students add food waste to them, harvest the compost and grow lush plants and vegetables

Pest free is another issue I have with this product. I’ve seen a lot of feed bins on farms and in stables that claim to be pest-free. They are often made of plastic or metal and resist the rodents until they chew a hole in them. Even galvanised sheet metal succumbs to rats after a while. They just chew through it. So I’m not sure how the plastic SubPod is going to resist a rat or two! Much of the advice encountered about home composting is confusing & misleading. Composting is a straightforward process that every gardener can master easily! It’s all commonsense. You basically have 2 choices – you can either do food-scrap composting or non-food-scrap composting. About the only difference being that food-scrap composting is best kept away from the animals we share our gardens with. And I do like the company’s vision of a world where composting and the composting process is a part of everyday life. It already is in my family and has been for decades. We hate food waste. Start Small: If you're new to composting, start with small amounts of waste and gradually increase as you become more comfortable with the process.Supporting Biodiversity: Compost is teeming with beneficial microorganisms, which contribute to soil health and biodiversity. By composting, you're supporting a whole ecosystem beneath your feet!

Start Strong: Subpod relies on compost worms to efficiently process your food waste. We recommend starting with 500-2000 worms for the best results. Don't worry worms are readily available and easy to care for. Plus we are here to help with step by step guides and friendly customer support.

Could I have gotten a compost setup for cheaper? Probably. But the Subpod videos and community has completely removed my need to independently seek out the information required to understand the process, which is also valuable to me as my time is extremely limited. So the easiest way I can see of describing the Subpod is that it’s a smallish plastic wormery that is part buried when in use. The composting process and compost worms then produce a resulting compost can be used as a mulch, soil additive etc. The more thoroughly you stir your food waste into the bedding, the less likely you will have a problem with flies and other insects. If you add a bit more moist bedding (moist carbon), it is easier to bury the food waste thoroughly when you are first getting going. Keep your waste covered as much as possible while you are collecting it, so the flies can’t lay eggs in it before it gets to your compost system. You can use sealed compost bins/containers in your kitchen to seal your food scraps and keep out any unwanted pests.

In the interests of balance please note there are comments from Subbed in the comments section below. What Is Subpod?Subbed themselves have described SubPod as a modular in-ground vermiculture composting system which is succinct, though perhaps not as descriptive as my description. And it should be noted that the word vermiculture is used by SubPod. Since first writing this review SubPod has extended their offer to include a SubPod Mini. I’ve added a SubPod Mini review below. It can also be used to combat food waste, which is good. What is Subpod Compost?