1. VERMICOMPOSTNG
Every household should have one of these:
The little black box tucked behind the plant is my worm bin.
It houses hundreds, if not thousands, of red wiggler worms.
They consume almost all of my fruit and vegetable scraps and then poop it out.
Worm poop is awesome.
2. BOOKS
There are some good books about worms. I never knew they could be so interesting until I read Amy Stewart's The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms. I like Amy Stewart - she is a writer, a nature lover and an artist and she has her own blog called Dirt.
We've also enjoyed these books for kids:
and Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss
and Garden Wigglers: Earthworms in Your Backyard by Nancy Loewen and Rick Peterson.
3. KIDS LOVE THEM
I don't know why (okay, maybe because I have brainwashed her) but my daughter loves worms, too.
I don't have any more reasons. I feel as though these are enough. Let me know if I've convinced you...
3 comments:
Those books look cute. I want a worm house, but I only keep a garden during the summer, so what do I do with the poo for the rest of the year? And would it stink up my garage if I kept it in there?
I loved this post because it made me want to have my own compost too. But the picture of all those worms devouring everything made my pregnant self want to vomit. LOL :)
We have tons of worms too. we don't have a compost box but a pile in the backyard that has lots of worms in it. We have worms all over our garden spot. Too bad Hannah won't touch them, she refuses to hold an small wiggling thing, not even a frog or a turtle. How do you get them to like worms?
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