We have our equipment set up and have a number of students who will be starting to sow their seeds as early as next week.  Students are enthusiastic and excitied.  Some are thinking of which flowers they will start as potted flowers make wonderful Christmas gifts.  Teachers will be making curriculum connections through LGT and parents have an opportunity to become involved and volunteer.  We are excited and looking forward to sowing next week.  Our parent volunteer Coreen Whitford has joined LGT and will also be maintaining  and making entries for the LGT web site for Cando Community School.

Nov.5th, 2009

Students have now planted their seeds.

Our worms have survived the summer!!  They were in a LARGE containter filled with the leafy garden plants from last year’s growth.  We tucked the container away in a storage room.  After checking them during the first week of school, we saw that the plant material was all eaten and the soil moist and rich.  One of our first school snacks was bananas, therefore many banana peels.  What a delightful treat for our worms after no fresh food for 10 weeks!

We will soon be ready to harvest the soil and start planting our new garden.

Grade 7 WORMS

Hello!

This is the Leask Community School Grade 7 class.  This is our first year of vermicomposting.  We are having lots of fun learning about them and getting others to help us.  We are collecting our snack food waste from grades 1-7 to feed to our worms.  It is amazing how much food we have collected!  We realized how much has gone into the garbage before the worms came into our lives.  Our worms are growing, and they don’t eat very much yet, but we are looking forward to having more worms and maybe even selling them to give back to the community.  It would be a really cool fundraiser for a field trip!

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