Spell & The Gypsy – Boutique Fashion Label – Byron Bay, Australia
“This is a really important step on the journey towards a more sustainable business. And it’s really exciting to see how passionate and on-board all of our staff are about composting their food waste.” – Lucy, Spell & The Gypsy
The Subpod Grow composting garden bed is the perfect solution for any small or larger space, allowing you to not only process up to 15kg of food waste a week, but also grow your own nutrient-dense food in your own space. Plus, with the compost process happening underground at the root level, your veggies and herbs are getting supercharged by constant natural feeding and fertilisation – so there’s no need for extra fertilisers or even as much water! What a dream!
Airflow is key to good composting. The ventilation lets air in yet keeps the pests out.
The internal divider allows you to segment your compost, and compost things such as onions which needs to de-gas. The worms will move in and out as needed.
Collect the nutrient-rich ‘worm juice’ made during composting, and use it diluted to water your plants. We call it #liquidgold
With over 800 Subpods pre-ordered to date, that means we have 80+ already allocated! Find out more about the program here.
Every Subpod purchase includes:
Subpod® Grow Bundle
30L (7.9 gal.) / 15 kgs (34lb) of food waste per week
It’s a garden bed, it’s a handy seat and it can compost up to 15kg/34lbs of food waste per week with no smells or mess. Get back to nature and use your waste as a resource.
The Subpod Grow features a strong and stylish galvanised steel raised garden bed and a Subpod composting unit.
It’s compact to fit in small spaces measuring 120cm long x 90cm wide x 45cm high the Subpod Grow is perfect to get you started composting and growing your own food.
Subpod® Single
30L (7.9 gal.) / 15 kgs (34lb) of food waste per week
Perfect for the single household. Harness the power of worms and microbes to compost the organic waste of up to 4-6 people with no odours or mess while feeding the soil at the plant root level.
Subpod® Duo
60L (15.8 gal.) / 30 kgs (68lb) of food waste per week
Double up for extra capacity. Harness the power of worms and microbes to compost up to 60 litres of organic waste per week.
Subpod® Trio – $319 USD
90L (23.7 gal.) / 45Kg (102lb) of food waste per week
Triple your composting volume! Harness the power of worms and microbes to compost up to 90 litres of organic waste per week.
Subpod® Compost Aerator
This compost aerator has been designed to make mixing and aerating your compost easy. With just a few minutes of light work each week, you can thoroughly mix and aerate your compost – and in doing so, create the perfect conditions to encourage rapid decomposition of your organic waste.
Feed The Soil. Feed the World.™ Hemp Tee
We’ve collaborated with local legends, Afends to create a range of Subpod’s own signature branded tees. Spread the word about composting and soil health in style. *Tee colour may vary from image shown
We’ll be shipping to Australia, USA, Canada, EU, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong and Japan. We are working on shipping to as many countries as we can in the future, but we are still sorting out all the shipping logistics at the moment.
Another option is to ship to one of the countries listed above and use a freight forwarding service.
The total weight of the Subpod in the shipping box will be approximately 10.5 kilograms/23.15 pounds, which includes the worm blanket. The size of the Subpod shipping box will be: 78 cm / 30.70 inches x 18 cm / 7.087 inches x 48 cm / 18.9 inches.
We’ve made the decision to subsidise shipping to make it as affordable a possible. Please note: VAT is not included for EU/UK backers.
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Habitat – Live, Work, Play – Byron Bay, Australia
In early 2019 we installed 10 Subpods at Habitat, a high end live work and play development in Byron Bay’s Industrial Estate. The systems are processing the waste up for 20+ tenants, as well as visitors to the space. We’re currently installing another 60 Subpods for new homes in the same precinct.
“Subpod is the perfect onsite waste management strategy for restaurants, schools, offices, homes and gardens. I can’t wait to get one into my new home currently under construction.” – Martin Anda PhD – BSc (Hons), BE (Mech), MIEAust
Talalla Retreat – Beach Resort – Sri Lanka
In 2017, our team worked with Talalla Retreat resort on Sri Lanka’s southern-most coastline, to develop an ongoing project featuring a waste-management, composting and education facility, worm farms and 10 working prototypes of the Subpod.
We launched our first crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in March this year, which had wild success globally, gaining pre-orders from 29 countries and support from many more countries.
Since the wrap of our first campaign, our team have been working super hard, and have been really focussed and committed to a successful manufacturing process, to make sure the Subpod is as refined, durable, and consistent as it can be. These first pre-orders to our Indiegogo backers will be fulfilled as first priority, followed by all others. We’re excited to say we’ll starting to ship these within the next 1-2 weeks (around 15th Nov onwards). Woot! We are incredibly thankful for all of the support we’ve received, and we do all we can to make your composting journey as amazing and smooth as it can be!
Organic waste includes much more than just food scraps. Subpod will allow you to compost any organic matter which would usually be discarded in a green bin, including lawn and garden waste, paper, and even natural fibres such as clothing. That means that favourite old cotton shirt doesn’t have to go to landfill when you wear it out!
Even food scraps that are traditionally excluded from other compost systems can be added, including citrus peel, onions, fish, and meat on the bone (in small quantities). Just remember, it is worms and microbes doing the work, so the smaller each piece of waste is, the faster they will break it down.
We have an experienced team who have executed and managed many large crowdfunding and consumer product launches over the last 10 years.
We a have a manufacturer and shipping partners secured. We are ready to proceed to tooling and this campaign is designed to help us cover this cost.
Without these funds we won’t be able to meet our current timeline.
If we fail to meet our target, pledges will not be processed as per standard Kickstarter policy.
All backers will be kept up to date via regular updates and any unforeseen issues will be communicated proactively to the community.