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The Worm Cafe

"The Worm Cafe: Mid-Scale Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes" by Binet Payne

This detailed manual describes how an enthusiastic teacher and her students developed a system to compost lunchroom waste with worms and save their school $6000 per year.

Teachers, decision-makers, and recycling specialists in schools, small businesses, and community groups will gobble up this material as readily as the redworms recycled cafeteria waste.

Binet Payne helped reduce her middle school’s waste disposal fees by recycling food wastes with redworms. Basing her system on Mary Appelhof’s popular how-to book, Worms Eat My Garbage, Binet tells in The Worm Cafe how she inspired students, colleagues, food services staff, and the board to support a vermicomposting program.

The Worm Cafe contains work sheets, a letter to parents, posters, quizzes, and a 30-page annotated guide to Binet’s most useful curricular materials on animals, plants, nature, and values divided into sections for children and for adults.

This comprehensive how-to manual gives complete steps for:

Conducting a school-wide waste audit
Incorporating lunchroom waste-composting into a recycling program
Determining worm bin size, location, and costs
What to use for worm bedding
Recognizing earthworm anatomy
Teaching about ecosystems and foodwebs with worm bins
Setting up worm bins
Maintaining worm bins
Managing food-waste flow at your school or business
Harvesting worm castings
Student success with project-based learning

About the author

Binet Payne teaches children, not subjects. They become self-learners who identify, define, and carry out their own projects while vermicomposting and gardening.

A graduate of Sonoma State University, with teaching credentials from Dominican College of San Rafael, Binet is currently project director for the North Coast Rural Challenge Network, helping students become stewards of their communities.

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