The Worm Choir: A Sensory Rite of Compost Initiation
A ritual for the rot-inclined, the soil-curious, and the spiritually decomposing.

This is not a workshop. This is a low-stakes, high-microbe rite of passage.

Join us for a 90-ish minute descent into the sacred mess of composting, where math is banned and intuition gets gloriously filthy. You’ll plunge your hands into warm rot, whisper to worms, bless banana peels, and build a pile that smells like the beginning of the world.

Come for:

• Dirt-touching as divination

• Worm consent and gentle fondling

• Fellowship with a small group of like-minded, curious people IRL

• Microbe tea sniff tests

• Compost trance journey into the underworld of decay

• Laughing, stirring, shredding, and honoring the scraps

Leave with:

• Never looking at compost the same

• A faint earth-smell under your nails

• Simple, no-math compost know-how

• The unshakable sense that death isn’t the end; it’s just the beginning

Details:

• Location: The Velveteen Bean garden, El Cerrito

• Duration: 60–90 minutes

• Cost: Free

• What to bring: a few kitchen scraps, curiosity, and clothes you don’t mind getting messy

📩 Email maggie@thevelveteenbean.com to hold a spot/please note any accessibility needs