Worm Cafe: Mid-Scale Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes

by Binet Payne, Paul Bourgeois

The Worm Mid-Scale Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes describes how a teacher and her students developed a system to compost lunchroom waste with worms and save their school $6000 per year. How they performed a waste audit, garnered support from school personnel. Discusses bins, bedding, maintenance, harvesting and using castings in the school garden. Contains earthworm diagrams, bulletin board materials, quizzes, letter to parents, charts, and dozens of resources. A manual for schools, small businesses and community groups. This comprehensive how-to manual gives complete steps

Genres: Gardening

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 1999

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an inspiring look at one teacher's success in composting all of her school's food waste and a lot of their paper waste using worms. I would have given it five stars, but the book is a bit unclear at certain points. Even if you don't plan to head to your local school for food scraps, The Worm Cafe is worth a read for anyone who wants to learn more about how to keep worms on their own homestead. Or just visit my blog to read the highlights of The Worm Cafe.

[Joshua]

I was hoping that this would be more of an engineering manual for implementing mid-scale vermicomposting. Instead, it turned out to be how to work vermicomposting into the grade-school curriculum. And it is actually quite a good resource for that task...but it is somewhat outside of my interests.