Vermicomposting
"Erth Moore Worm" is an educational publication to teach children about composting, ecology, and the environment in an amusing way.
The Worm Bin is a popular tool for getting young children interested in the environment. Westmoreland Cleanways maintains two worm bins for presentations in schools. This method of indoor composting demonstrates the care, feeding, and maintenance of a worm bin and how to use the finished compost. Children feed the redworms vegetable scraps, fruit peeling and bread from their lunches and watch the worms digest these materials and produce worm castings, which is a rich organic compost. This compost can be used as a rich natural fertilizer on houseplants, foundation plants, and garden plants.
Interesting worm facts:
- Redworms produce eggs in cocoons that hatch in about three weeks
- Redworms have five hearts
- Redworms can live four to five years
- Redworms do not have eyes, but are very sensitive to light
