Compost with Worms - Comprehensive Guide with School Activities PDF Printable

This 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 works great printed and placed in protective sleeves inside a binder for easy reference. 20 colorful pages.