Vermicomposting!

In third grade we cover a unit on communities. Within it we talked yesterday about how much garbage can actually be recycled and reused. Matt, a member of Faith's faculty is our local expert on vermicomposting, which is "using composting worms to transform biodegradable garbage into nutrient-rich soil for growing more fruits and vegetables. "

God wants us to be good stewards of all the things we use, so one way third grade is going to do this is we are going to turn our apple cores, banana peels, vegetable scraps etc. into excellent soil for plants to grow!


Matt shows the kids the worm bin where are African Night Crawlers will turn our trash into fertile soil!


The class sifted the castings (fertile soil or aka worm poop.) out of the bin.


After sifting the castings we used the soil to plant some cucumber seeds.