Anna-3/2/09-Lower East Side Ecology Center

Today I didn’t choose to participate I was forced to. 😉  Today Carey Pulverman was supposed to come to school to do a composting workshop with the pound of words I bought this weekend.  But as you all know we had a snow day.  I emailed Carey this morning because I had a feeling the worms weren’t going to stay alive another week until she could come and do the workshop.  Carey called me back and explained that I was right, the worms wouldn’t make it unless I set up the bin myself.  (And no Momii, I couldn’t return them.) So with no prior experience and no workshop, I set the bin up myself.  My mother helped but she wouldn’t touch the worms so she was my photographer.  I looked at a brochure Carey had given me and went to the website, nyccomposting.org.  First I cut one-inch strips of newspaper and soaked them in water.  Then I desperately searched for food scraps in my kitchen because I had dropped most of them off on Saturday at the farmer’s market drop off stand.  I peeled a potato, got some old lettuce, some dried flowers, and some used tea bags.  I put the food under the damp newspapers in the bin.  Then I dumped the worms and soil on top.  Hundreds of worms started wiggling and borrowing through the soil to get away from the light.  I am leaving the bin open for an hour and then letting my cats back out from where they are locked up.  Enjoy our first snow-day in almost a decade!!