BUNDLE Compost with Worms Guide and Posters
Products in this Bundle (3)
Bonus
Description
Well-designed, inspiring tools to learn how to compost with worms at school or at home.
The 20-page, full color guide is a culmination of over 15 years of composting with worms and several semesters running large and enchanting school gardens in California and Texas.
Learn how to make a model of a red wiggler, easily grasp how to set up a worm bin for success. Hold a composting "fair" at school and customize it for your specific situation.
Worm bins serve many purposes in a learning environment. Benefits extend beyond recycling and composting. Red wigglers and their cocoons can captivate children, calm anxious moods, and support ecology and science lessons.
Compost with Worms Covers:
How to Transform Food Waste into Nutrient-Rich Soil Amendment
- Why Compost? (An easy to remember script or mission statement explaining why we should compost)
- FAQs (How Red Wigglers Work and Why Castings are Good )
- 6 Easy Steps (Formatted like an attractive poster)
- Best Foods to Feed Red Wigglers and Materials to Avoid (Another mini poster packed with info)
- Tips for Success (Essentially how our bin never gets stinky or gross)
- Get Fast Results (Methods to speed things up)
- Humor - "If a Red Wiggler Could Talk" (Worm gives us advice)
- 3 Ways to Harvest Castings (A variety of ways to separate castings from worms)
- Tips for Keeping a Small Scale Worm Farm at School (Addresses some challenges in the school environment)
- Myth Busters and Time Savers (Surprising experiences)
- How to Use Worm Castings (Safe to handle and multi-use)
- Anatomy and Reproduction (Covers the basics)
- How Are Castings Formed? (What really goes on inside a red wiggler - you might use this script when the worm model is in play)
- Instructions for Making a Worm Model (It can be done and was a big hit)
- Fascinating Worm Cocoons (Neat facts and a cartoon)
- Hold a Composting Fair at School (Another exciting activity - you decide how big or small the event - contact me at the email provided if you have questions)
- Corny Jokes about Composting with Red Wigglers (Lighten things up with fun riddles)
This 8.5″ x 11″ format of the guide works great printed and placed in protective sleeves inside a binder for easy reference.
The posters are complimentary to the guide and enhance understanding! The 8.5" x 11" inch and 11" x 14" posters are included in PDF printable format. The Bonus file is the 11" x 17".
For the 18" x 24" poster see the separate product listing.
These materials are a result of hundreds of hours running school gardens, garden clubs and educational programs!