Capitol School

SOoo.... Our compost project is doing really well right now. If you remember, we were the group that were doing the vermicomposting in the plastic chest of drawers type apparatus. We have continued adding food scraps and shredded paper. We have kept the bin in a semi dark place and therefore are able to keep moisture in the bin so as not to dry out the worms. Our worms are doing fairly well. We are hoping that sometime in the near future we can harvest some compost from the worms. We have tried to address some of the earlier problems we were having (mold and food not being broken down) and are making a little headway on that. In our project at the capitol school, we used compost from the farm and so we are very sure that it is a very rich compost. If we have to add substantial amounts of compost, we will probably get it from the farm or from the compost piles at the UA arboretum. As of now, we have not needed any more large amounts of compost and as I said earlier, hope to be able to use the vermicompost soon.