Eden Public School staff and students are fighting unnecessary food waste with the power of worms.
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Last term students built two bathtub worm farms using materials salvaged from local Bega Valley Shire Council waste depots.
The school discovered it used to produce about 60 litres of food waste per week.
The worm farms will help to eliminated this organic waste while also minimising the fertiliser costs for the school’s vegie garden.
“Once this waste has been processed into compost through the two worm farms, the students should be able to grow and harvest the same net volume of vegetables,” the program’s specialist teacher Dan Bakker said.
After constructing the worm farms the students then counted over 2000 worms by hand for each tub before making up the bedding from straw, mud and organic matter.
“This is just the start, given that compost worms will eat anything that was once alive, students and staff can start directing paper that is unsuitable for recycling to the hungry wrigglers.”
