The Soil Maker™ is made in two pieces. The bottom piece — a round stoneware chamber with small holes around its base — goes underground. The top piece rises above the soil line.

1. 1Dig a hole deep enough for the bottom chamber to sit fully below the soil line
2. 2Place the bottom chamber so the holes in its base make contact with the surrounding earth
3. 3Fill soil back around it so it sits firmly in place
4. 4Set the top piece on — the narrow neck and wide bowl rise above the ground
5. 5Place it near where you want the garden to grow

Drop food scraps into the wide bowl at the top — vegetable peels, fruit rinds, coffee grounds, eggshells. They fall into the buried chamber. Worms and microorganisms already living in your soil enter through the holes in the base.

The worms move in and out continuously — eating scraps inside the chamber, carrying broken-down nutrients back out through the holes into surrounding soil. They do the distribution work themselves, feeding the ground with every pass.

Bacteria and fungi work alongside them. Over two to eight weeks, scraps become living soil that feeds the roots of whatever's growing above.

Each Soil Maker™ you install becomes a centre of underground activity. As you spread composted soil into nearby holes every 3–6 months, you're building physical paths — tunnels and trails the worms follow between vessels, carrying nutrients as they move.

Over time those paths connect. Worm activity from one vessel reaches another. Fungal networks touch. What starts as individual vessels becomes one living underground system across the whole yard.