Nelson Worm Farm
On 9 November, the Nelson Primary School had approximately a hundred visitors. One of them was a lady called Ariana from Bunnings, the rest were a bunch of tiger worms! Ms Williamson and Mrs Idle have been doing an amazing job setting up our garden beds. We are now growing potatoes, broad beans, lettuce, broccoli, kale, and various varieties of tomatoes. Our goal is to be a more sustainable school and feed our community from our gardens.
We currently recycle our food scraps in a bucket that is donated to Mrs Jacobs’ pig ‘Maggie’. Our next step was we wanted to extend our recycling program to create ‘food’ for our gardens. Ms. Williamson approached Bunnings to see what they could do to help us. Bunnings very kindly donated all the supplies for us to construct and look after a worm farm. We plan to share Maggie’s food scraps with the worms.
The children enjoyed building the worm farm and learning about how a worm farm works. A highlight was watching the worms wriggling around and then ‘tucking them in’ under the blanket.
Now we just need to come up with 99 names for our new worm friends!
