08 Oct 2011
On Friday, Engadine West students set up their worm farm. WSN Environmental Solutions provided significant funding as a part of their Grassroots Grants for sustainability projects and our involvement in COSOTP sustainability initiatives led by Julie Gallan who is Principal of the Royal National Park Environmental Centre.
The SCRAP designed and built worm farm is the Taj Mahal of worm facilities. Every student received training in worm farming by Peter Carroll who is a leader in the field. The Bright Green Sparks will now coordinate our school's composting and worm farming but everyone is involved and we will all benefit.
Starting Monday, we sort waste, compost and provide our new little worm mates with a healthy sustainable environment. Let's think about how our food is packaged and put our food waste only in the purple (worm coloured) bins. We all learnt about that in the Waste Watchers Program. Our little mates don't like orange peels and meat, but we can compost that. Plastic is a problem. Let's all try to reduce our waste and use what waste we do generate. Our effort definitely isn't a waste of time.
Shhh…..don't tell the cockatoos what we're doing, see if they get the message.