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Bioclimakit: composting and gardening for everyone!

Making a vegetable garden and composting its waste is the dream of many, but few are those who succeed. Bioclimakit has a solution to keep your thumb green, in all conditions!

As city gardens and urban compost grow in popularity, many city dwellers are realizing that growing vegetables and recycling bio-waste takes time, money, and know-how. Where many budding gardeners get discouraged, a company offers turnkey solutions. Explanations with Nicolas Senie, founder of Bioclimakit.

What is Bioclimakit's activity?

Bioclimakit is above all an unprecedented invention in the gardening and composting sector: we have imagined self-fertile growing containers, which allow you to grow your vegetables and compost at the same time. These bins have several functions and greatly facilitate the creation of a vegetable garden and compost, for everyone, on their balcony or terrace. We were inspired by the principles of permaculture and condensed them into these vegetable beds.

First of all, our culture trays allow the plants to supply themselves with water independently, thanks to a water reserve located in the bottom of the tray. This principle of sub-irrigation makes it possible to space out the waterings (every 15 days, and even more if you connect the tray to your gutters). In case of excess, an overflow system evacuates the water and prevents the tank from flooding. This technique solves the main problem of soilless culture: the soil that dries out. Users can go on vacation without fearing for the survival of their shoots.

Then, our bins are equipped with vermicomposter tubes: you put your kitchen peelings in them and these tubes become larders for the compost worms, which are supplied with the bin. By feeding, earthworms fertilize the tank. Your compost thus becomes a fertilizer for your shoots. You garden, while composting, in an ultra-short circuit.

Finally, we offer an advisory service: we help our customers choose their plants, depending on their exposure to the sun. We have expertise that allows anyone who wants to make a vegetable garden to optimize their chances of success.

Bioclimakit : le compostage et le jardinage pour tous !

We offer bare growing containers, with the waterproof part, according to standard sizes, but we also do custom-made. We thus provide specific quantities of potting soil, crushed tile, tubes and earthworms. Our products come in kits and all you have to do is plant them upon receipt. We deliver everywhere in France.

How was the unique concept of Bioclimakit born?

The concept started from an observation: many people want to grow their vegetables or herbs. For 8 out of 10 French people, living next to a green space is important (according to Habitat News) and 7 out of 10 French people are looking for solutions to compost their waste, but few people succeed (according to Le Parisien). In fact, it is not easy to have a successful vegetable garden and compost, without the right equipment and the appropriate know-how. It is easy to buy seeds on the Internet, but very difficult to start from the seed for your vegetable garden. It is also necessary to maintain its shoots, water them at the right time and in the right quantities, which is far from being instinctive, and is often synonymous with discouragement (when people go on vacation and discover their dead shoots on their return) . We address ourselves in particular to urban populations, for whom access to compost is complicated: few condominiums make it available, community compost bins are often far from homes, and indoor compost is not suitable for everyone. (towards which escape, midges, smells, etc.).

In 2024, the AGEC law, which imposes the sorting of bio-waste for companies and communities, will be extended to individuals. It is important that until then, people have solutions for composting easily, without hygiene problems, and in a short circuit.

These are the reasons that led us to think up and manufacture our first kits, in March 2021. The objectives of our kits are to democratize access to gardening, such as composting, especially for city dwellers, and to help to engage in ecological transition. A first step towards individual carbon neutrality is in food consumption and waste management. Eating better, eating your own products, composting your waste, is possible but not accessible to everyone. With our growing containers, our low-tech technology and our advice, we facilitate these practices, and allow individuals to do everything in a circular way: a single container for their vegetable garden and compost. The vegetable garden feeds the individual, who fertilizes him in return with his bio-waste.

What are your ambitions for the future of Bioclimakit?

Our ambition is to change the French way of life. We want waste management, and in particular the composting of bio-waste, to become a reflex for everyone, that it flows naturally. We want to position ourselves as an alternative, to make the general public aware that kitchen waste is a resource.

We then have ambitions for Bioclimakit, as a company. In particular, we want to recruit and create three positions by 2023. A master composter and gardener (a dual skill to create the contents of the bins, manage the hotline and support customers), a carpenter (to build, assemble and ship the bins ) and a webmarketer (to manage the website, news, etc.) We currently work in B2C but intend to offer our services to schools, co-ownership trustees, social landlords, promoters- real estate, businesses, etc.

Finally in terms of products, we are in the process of developing an 8 liter vermicomposter tube. The goal is to allow families to compost 100% of their bio-waste. Like all the rest of our products, this tube will be entirely made in France. While waiting for the release of this product in the spring of 2022, you can already transform your flower pots into vermicomposters by inserting one of our terracotta tubes and compost worms. Give your plants the living soil they deserve! It is the ideal ecological gift for Christmas and accessible at an affordable price.

This content was produced in partnership with SCP. The editorial staff of BFM Business did not participate in the production of this content.

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