Room 15 & 16 Crazy for Cabbage & Compost

 Today Room 16 & 17 harvested a cabbage with Mrs Daniel 🥬 .

 We ate the cabbage raw. It was crunchy, fresh and slightly spicy.

 Next we fed the scraps to our Worm Farms 🪱.

 We'll use the compost our worms make to grow more food in the gardens.

Room 17 Exploring our Sustainable Gardens

 

Today, ROOM 17 GEMS explored our sustainable gardens, worm farms, and composts ...

Amelia - We saw wiggly slugs.  They had slide to make trails.

Alice - I saw some snails in the garden.  We saw compost.  I could smell it.  The vegetable peels need to go in the compost.

Jin - we smelt the lemongrass. We tasted sour sorrel. I saw the worms.  They are wiggly.

Zoey - I heard the birds singing

Ella - I ate apple.

Hazel.  - I felt the compost. It was so hot.

Kirsten - We saw a slug. It was like a snail.

Constance- the worms help us grow some things.

We are learning to put our food scraps the worm bucket or hot compost bucket, so fungus, bacteria and creepy crawlies can turn it into new good soil.

Coffee Grounds for Compost

 

Thank you to Janessa and Tripoli Bakehouse for bringing coffee grounds for our community compost hub. Our new hot composts can take ALL food waste. Do you have scraps to help us make compost for our gardens?

Join our compost community

 Watch this video to find out how you can help fight climate change and turn waste into food ...

Hot for Compost - Our Auckland City Council Grant Goes to Good Use

Our Waste Audit identified biodegradable waste that's currently going into landfill, which creates climate changing gases. Now we can hot compost this waste and turn food we don't want into food we do want.

The Year 6 Eco Leaders and Community Care Team had a great time with Tim and Richard, from the Carbon Cycle Company, building our new hot compost boxes. We especially seeing some of the wriggly invertebrates involved. 

We're so grateful to Auckland City Council's Waste Minimisation Fund and The Carbon Cycle Company for helping us set up a hot composting system, so we can be more sustainable.

Find out how the whole community can be involved soon!

Soldier fly larvae are the big digesters - gross and weird and wonderful!

Weatherproof Pathways

 Our pathways kept being washed away, so the Edible Gardens have been treated to weathproof walkways, ready in time for winter.

Easter Waste Audit Results Roundup

 "1.82 kg of landfill waste could be diverted to compost or soft plastic recycling maybe” Jayden

“I found a purple pencil case that i’m going to keep” Tina

“I found stickers” Nuveena We can reuse things instead of throwing away.

“Stop throwing out good pieces of paper.  Use the back of them” Ashton

“There were masks that could be washed and reused” Chanuthi

“Good food in the landfill is 86 times worse than what come out your car, but we can use it to make compost and grow food” Milo

Results Roundup:

The total amount of waste was thirteen point seven six kilograms.  Nine point zero six kilograms of this is already being composted or recycled.

Altogether there was four point seven kilograms of landfill waste and we thought that maybe one point eight two kilograms could be diverted if we recycle soft plastic, compost all food waste and try to compost paper towels.

We’re going to do another waste audit later in the year to see if our ideas make less landfill waste.