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Worm Farm
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Millburn Central Worm Condos
These hardworking animals are chewing up lunch garbage here at school. Munching on apple cores, sprouts that have gone gooey, potato peelings, dried tree leaves and other assorted vegetal matter, the red wigglers of Millburn Central have produced rich, fertile compost.
In the autumn, 3 cups of table scraps plus some leaf litter were transformed into 4 cups of moist compost.
This winter, 6 cups of the same "garbage" were digested and turned into glorious soil used around the school in potted plants.
Now in spring, fourth grade lunch scraps are being added to the worm farm working bin to continue reducing the amount of garbage we throw away in the lunch room.
One experiment
In October, one piece of plastic wrapper and a chunk of styrofoam were added to the working worm bin. Each time soil has been retrieved, the plastic is coated in loose soil but has changed not at all.
Ecology Connection
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