Arukah Worm Farm
Tue, Oct 20
|Fringewood Community Centre
The UN now estimates that about a third of the world's soil is moderately to highly degraded after decades of heavy tillage, synthetic fertilizers, and chemicals that bypass soil biology. How can we turn this around?
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 8:40 p.m.
Fringewood Community Centre, 14 Fringewood Dr, Ottawa, ON K2S 1T4, Canada
About the event
Stephen and Jessica run Arukah Worm Farm on a five-acre property in Newington, Ontario, with the help of three kids and over a million worms. Before settling here in 2022, the family spent 10 years in Nunavut, where all three of their children were born and where they fell in love with the North.
A neighbor first introduced them to worm castings, and once they saw what it did in their own garden, they were hooked. The UN now estimates that about a third of the world's soil is moderately to highly degraded after decades of heavy tillage, synthetic fertilizers, and chemicals that bypass soil biology. Stephen and Jessia believe we all have a part to play in turning that around, and the best place to start is paying attention to what nature is already doing. That's where worm castings come in. They feed soil itself, returning beneficial microbes, gentle…