Educational Worm Farming
Worm Farms as a Teaching Tool
It can be difficult to think of fun and interesting ways to teach environmental science. Worm farming can be an excellent way to bring the outdoors inside and hands-on! With one of our farms, you can see the vermicomposting cycle first hand. All you have to do is add food every week or so, make sure they have bedding and proper moisture, and keep them between 40 and 80 degrees!
Our farms are made out of recycled 5 gallon buckets. We chose to do this because we wanted to keep them out of landfills and find a way to repurpose something. The top bucket is where the red wigglers live. That is where their bedding and grit goes, and that's also where you'll feed them. The next bucket is a spacer bucket so your farm is easy to disassemble for harvesting. The bottom bucket is what collects any fallen worms and their moisture run off! Each farm comes with at least 100 mature worms that are ready to start composting right away. With proper feeding and monitoring, farms should begin producing within 6 months! There's a quick worm farming guide on the side of each farm with basic information about everything you'll need to make sure your new farm thrives. We also have more in depth information here on our website that you can also check out!
We also created a quick lesson about worm farming and some activity pages that you can use to help teach the basics to a classroom or even as an at home project! The first page is where kids can learn what vermicomposting is, how it positively impacts our environment and the life cycle of the red wigglers. Then there's fun activities to help them test their new knowledge! Please feel free to use these teaching tools however you need!
