Worm Farm Shines on Earth Day
At the YES Earth Day Festival the 6th grade class, led by their teacher, Justin Drumm, hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony inaugurating their environmental project, a worm farm. The worm farm typifies the numerous project-based learning activities that students at YES experience.
Participating student, Adriana Ajuria, said, “My Favorite part about the worm farm is helping kids sort the food left on their lunch trays for the worms and looking inside the worm bin.” Student Joshua Riedgerger said, “This worm farm is important to the environment because it keeps food waste from turning into methane gas that causes global warming.” All this student work results in worm castings that the YES farmer, Nick Brown, uses to enrich the soil of the school farm.
Mike Condon, the worm farm expert consulting on the project said this about the students, “The cafeteria to compost worm farm project was designed and implemented by the 6th grade class. They came up with plans, signs and teams of two to run the program at lunch.
Watching them take on their role and execute it was nothing short of amazing. They have shown pride, dedication and the willingness to learn. They all got to learn to lead and to teach, as they worked together to train one another in the compost champion position in the lunchroom. These are our future leaders showing what they are capable of. Way to go 6th grade!!”