WALT: to find out FACTS about composting.

Whaea Anouk’s 2017 Work

• Compost! Why?

To improve your soil

To help flowers grow.

Food Waste Song Explained By Ed Sheren

1.3000.000.000x1000

21.000.000 of bread in New Zealand gets thrown away.

New Zealanders throw away 122,547 tonnes of food a year.

Love food, hate to waste.

Nearly half of your rubbish is usually organic waste….

Our rubbish gets buried in a landfill. This is a big hole in the ground, so if we put our food in the bin this is where your rubbish will end up.

 

When organic waste like food or plants starts to break down in the landfill and sinks into the ground It creates a liquid under the ground.

We can compost anything if it can biodegrade

- (rot). We call this organic waste.

Compost Recipe!

Browns + Grains + Air + Water = Compost.

We need to get a bit of balance of Greens and Browns.

Types of compost:

 

• Soil
• Compost Bins
• Worm Farm

Composting Video.

Worm Facts:

1. Did you know that worms have FIVE HEARTS!
2. they breathe through their skin.
3. They eat a lot but have no teeth.
4. Tiger worms are the best worms for your garden.
5. If your worm farm is too dry add a little water, if your worm farm is too wet add some shredded paper or cardboard.
6. Worms don't like to be too cold or too warm.
7. A worm can lay 1 egg a week. And 1 egg creates 4 to 5 eggs.
8. Hermaphrodite
9. Worms don't like chili, leeks, mandarins, lemons, onions, glossy/shiny paper or garlic.
10. Worms DO NOT like Shiny paper because Shiny paper has chemicals.
11. Worms Love shredded Cardboard and paper, fruit, manure and Food scraps.

 

Looking at worms:

These worms are called Tiger Worms. Tiger worms have stripes on their body. In our container of worms we found an egg and we also found a baby worm they were both so tiny.