Worm Bin Cleanout

I hadn't yet cleaned out my worm bin, and I needed to take a break from my painting project, so I took a couple hours to work with the worms. Amy Donovan and the Franklin County Solid Waste Management District got my classroom set up with the worms, the bin, and the information to keep and raise red wigglers. The Red Worms were funded by the MassDEP's free K-12 environmental educational program The Green Team. This project is part of a MassDEP School Recycling Assistance grant. Each Greenfield School can receive a free worm bin as the "hands-on" portion of the school district-wide compost program that is being funded by the 3-year grant.

My worms have been doing their job, turning kitchen scraps into usable compost. I cleaned out three popcorn buckets full of vermicompost!

Here is some more information about vermiculture from The Worm Ladies, where my orginal pound of worms came from.

As I was going I did my best to save any small worms and egg casings I found. I hope they're happy with a new bin full of bedding and scraps.