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WORM BIN COMPOSTING:NATURE'S WAY OF REPLENISHING THE EARTHThe nut and bolts of how to worm bin compost on the family scale. No scientific facts, no reproduction predictions. Just the basics of what you need to know to get started and an appendix of worm bin critters. Have fun! |
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Children's Stories on CompostingChildren's illustrated adventure
books Pee Wee's Fun With Worms Teacher's Guide
Author Larraine Roulston has been writing on environmental issues since 1987. |
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#1 The first book of the Pee Wee Series, 'Pee Wee and the Magical Compost Heap,' introduces children to backyard composting through the adventures of Pee Wee, the endearing little red wiggler worm, and all the insects in the compost heap. The adventure begins when four neighborhood children are magically transported on the back of a butterfly to visit Castle Compost. |
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#2 The book's sequel, 'Pee Wee's Great Adventure: a guide to Vermicomposting' has Pee Wee describing an amazing adventure from a classroom worm bin to a backyard composter. Instructions are included on how to care for worms and harvest their castings.
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#3 'Pee Wee's Family in a Nutshell' unites Pee Wee with Reddy. Again, Vanessa the magical butterfly transports everyone to the classroom worm bin to find Pee Wee's family. This book notes the differences between vermicomposting and backyard composting.
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#4 'Pee Wee goes to the Fair' takes all the compost critters to a Spring Environmental Science Fair where Scott and friends display their elaborately decorated worm bin.
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#5 For a Waste Reduction Week activity, the children in Ms. Palmer’s class explore the benefits of brewing and applying compost tea. All the while, Pee Wee and the compost critters plan to host a compost tea party of their own inside a rotting Jack O’Lantern.
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#6 Pee Wee invites you to color the pictures and solve the puzzles at Castle Compost. This 24 page book illustrates the joy of composting.
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| All six books can be purchased as a package. They include a song and resources all designed to help teachers discuss the process of composting in an interesting way. Together they make a good environmental asset to any library. |
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The Pee Wee puppet show on composting and the teacher's
guide will be emailed upon request with the purchase of the
set of Pee Wee books. Presently it prints up on 4 pages with
room to spare. When new ideas present themselves, the guide
will be updated, not going over 4 pages so it can be printed
on 2 pages double-sided.
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FREE WITH PURCHASE OF SET OF 6 PEE WEE BOOKS!
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"Teaming With Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web"Sometimes scientists can talk over the layman's head and not even realize that the message is not being conveyed. This book is written in a very understandable language, that even a simple worm farmer like myself could understand and relate to. A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the life producing your food.
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Smart gardeners understand that soil is
alive and what is in the soil is what supports plant life.
Healthy soil is exploding with life - beyond the worms and
insects we can see with the naked eye - there are a
multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microbial forms of
life vital to the soil food web that sustains healthy plant
life. Resorting to chemicals destroys this delicate
balance and results in an unhealthy situation for the soil,
the plants, and the environment. You can't destroy
this balance and not have an affect on the people, the
children, family and friends. As gardeners, farmers,
and inhabitants of the Earth we have an obligation to the
next generation to leave behind a healthy soil.
Venture beyond your current understanding that good soil
grows healthy plants and understand why...This book
available now from Amazon.com by clicking on the buy link.
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Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners
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Leonardo da Vinci once mused that “we know more
about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil
underfoot,” an observation that is as apt today as it was
five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes
is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with
life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions of
bacteria, millions of nematodes, hundreds of thousands of
mites, thousands of insects and worms, and hundreds of
snails and slugs. But because of their location and size,
many of these creatures are as unfamiliar and bizarre to us
as anything found at the bottom of the ocean...This
book
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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Stewart herself does little experiments on her worms, from
the same admirable sense of curiosity Darwin once showed, but she
is a gardener rather than a scientist. She knows just how
Darwin felt, though, describing her own worms as
"companionable creatures - clean, quiet, and hardworking,"
and from time to time, she brings some up from her own worm
compost bin to her study, just to keep her company: "A pot
of earthworms on the desk is a pleasant distraction." She
has many remarks on her compost bin, into which go all her
vegetable food scraps, and newspaper, and out of which come
worm castings for her garden. She has a useful appendix to
tell how to get going on worm composting yourself, and
surely plenty of readers of this happy and informative book
will do just that. Even those who don't go that far will
have a renewed appreciation for earthworms and for the
scientists who have probed the way they make the soil that
sustains us...This
book
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"Worms Eat My Garbage" - How to set up and
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Before her death Mary Appelhof was a worms champion. She was very big in her field and happily shared her knowledge with the hopes of putting a worm bin in every kitchen...This book available now from Amazon.com by clicking on the buy link.
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"Worms Eat Our Gargage"
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Worms are part of a natural cycle Full of classroom activities this is
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"The Rodale Book of Composting:
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Rodale has been about organic from the beginning. Spearheading organic gardening and farming back before organic was popular, there was a deep understanding of the ill effects that pesticides and chemical fertilizers had on the soil life and the environment as a whole...This book available now from Amazon.com by clicking on the buy link.
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"Easy Composters You Can Build"
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Depending on where you live any of these composters could grow worms. Worm bin composting is as much or more about how you do it rather than the vessel. People worry about the worms escaping in an outdoors bin, when if the environment is favorable for worms the worms will come and they will stay...This book available now from Amazon.com by clicking on the buy link.
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Mid-Scale Vermicomposting
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This is one of the best resources I have ever spent money on, myself. Great for in the classroom for older kids. Expands the learning experience beyond the worm bin to include recycling, the environment, and sale of the product. This is a must have for any instructor that is going to introduce mid-scale worm bin composting in the school environment. Use it to show the school the evidence of the benefits such a program would have for the school...This book available now from Amazon.com by clicking on the buy link.  |
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Worm bin composting for growing a garden. A perfect combination, worm castings are the most beneficial soil amendment, and you can create it yourself, with a little help from your friendly wigglers...This book available now from Amazon.com by clicking on the buy link.
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