If there were a global awards ceremony for “Most Under-Appreciated Lifeform”, worms would sweep the floor. Quite literally… :)
And today — World Soil Day — is the perfect moment to give them their overdue Oscar.
And because we take soil very seriously here (in a good way), we’re celebrating with £10 OFF every wormery until midnight tomorrow.
If you’ve been waiting for a sign from the universe to sort your composting out — this is it. Consider yourself officially nudged.
World Soil Day exists because we are all steadily grasping that healthy soil isn’t an optional extra.
It is life support.
Food, water, biodiversity, climate — all plugged straight into what’s happening underneath our boots.
But in the UK, a lot of gardens are sitting on soil that’s tired, compacted, or frankly ready for a long holiday.
This is where your wormery becomes a tiny act of rebellion.
A quiet revolution that starts with potato peelings, a handful of red wrigglers, and one human declaring:
“I am NOT sending perfectly good nutrients to landfill. Not today.”
Why a Wormery Matters (Especially Today)
- Worms are the original soil engineers.
While we’ve been arguing about thermostats and solar farms, worms have spent 600 million years aerating, digesting, fertilising and quietly fixing the planet. They do more for soil health in a night than most gardeners manage in a year.
- Vermicompost isn’t compost — it’s soil rocket fuel.
Packed with microbes, enzymes and nutrients, it gives tired soil the equivalent of a spa day. The proper sort. Not a Groupon one...
- A wormery cuts methane, reduces waste and boosts water retention.
Forget the bamboo toothbrush — THIS is the real climate win. When your food waste ferments and feeds worms instead of rotting in landfill, the carbon maths starts to look much better.
- It’s how you take control of your own patch.
World Soil Day can feel very “global summit”.
But it starts with you, your garden, your pots, your allotment — one wormery, one bucket of scraps, one person deciding their soil is worth investing in.
Why Giving a Wormery for Christmas is Brilliant (and Not at All Weird)
You could panic-buy a Jo Malone candle (sorry Jo — nothing personal).
You could buy the classic male panic gift: a multi-tool that will live its entire life in a drawer.
OR…
you could give a wormery — a gift that transforms a garden, reduces waste, boosts soil health, and sparks a tiny wiggly revolution in someone’s life.
And we’ve made it completely stress-free:
**How to Give a Wormery for Christmas
(the no-wiggle, no-shock way)**
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Choose your wormery
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Select the Voucher Option instead of live worms.
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Wrap the wormery, slide it under the tree, pour a sherry.
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After Christmas, they redeem their voucher online and we send fresh, lively worms when they’re ready to begin.
We’ll have plenty of worms from Boxing Day onwards, and the Wiggly team will be dispatching between Christmas and New Year.
No rustling boxes. No unexpected wiggles. No dog launching itself into the tree.
This World Soil Day, Start Something Small — and Mighty
Healthy soil grows healthy plants, healthy food, healthy wildlife and healthier people.
And it all starts with something tiny, wiggly and absolutely brilliant.
A wormery isn’t just a gift.
It’s a soil-saving, waste-reducing, planet-helping commitment — and right now it’s £10 cheaper.
So this World Soil Day, join the Wiggly rebellion.
Your soil will thank you.
Your bins will thank you.
And honestly — so will the real Jo Malone I reckon….
