Monday, April 7, 2014

Feeding our Worms

“Environmental chefs
here’s a recipe for you’'
to fix from scratch
to mix a batch
of Compost Stew”.
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That is the main stanza in the book “Compost Stew” by Mary McKenna Siddals.  We read it at story time this morning then we made our own compost stew.
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We started with our compost bucket that sat over the weekend.  It had banana peels, egg shells, coffee grounds and a few tomatoes from this morning.
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              The children took turns stirring it and crushing the egg shells.
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                    Then we added it to our worm composter.
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Covered it with paper again and sprayed it with water till it was good and moist.   We’ll check tomorrow to see if the worms have been working through their meal.