From Apple Cores to Healthy Soil

Florida Ag in the Classroom Summer Teacher Workshop 2005

 Food Land & People Lesson by Kathy Cappa & Susan Roberts

 

2005 Link Updates for ‘Additional Resources’ and ‘Web Sites’ section

Cornell University Resource Center – Compost Publications

http://www.cce.cornell.edu/store/customer/home.php?cat=382

Compost…because a rind is a terrible thing to waste! – Packet

Composting:  Wastes to Resources – activity packet

Composting to Reduce the Waste Stream:  A guide to Small Scale Food and Yard Waste Composting - guide

Get the Goods Not the Garbage - curriculum

It’s Gotten Rotten – video

 

Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/zdmain.html

Microbe Zoo Dirtland – information site

 

National 4-H Council

http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/pEnvironmentPublications.aspx

Cycling Back to Nature:  Soils Alive from Tiny Rocks to Compost - guide

 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/recycle/gremlin/gremlin.htm

Adventures of the Garden Gremlin – PDF downloadable comic book

http://www.epa.gov/kids/garbage.htm

Environmental Kids Club:  Garbage & Recycling – activities & games

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/education/kids.htm

Planet Protectors Club – activities

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/reduce.htm

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – information

http://www.epa.gov/students/

EPA Student Center:  Waste and Recycling – teachers’ & kids’ site

 

 

 

 

 

From Apple Cores to Healthy Soil … continued

Florida Ag in the Classroom Summer Teacher Workshop 2005

 Food Land & People Lesson by Kathy Cappa & Susan Roberts

 

Susan & Kathy’s Additional Resources

http://www.cyberstreet.com/kwfarm/maintenance.htm#stepbystep

K & W Rabbit & Worm Farm – ‘Easy Maintenance Worm Bins’ article

http://www.kazarie.com/

Kazarie Worm Farm – the worm farm that provided worms for our workshop.  Mr. Warco offers a 5% discount for schools and non-profit organizations.  (Don’t forget to mention our workshop!)

https://secure.dollarsbydesign.com/websites/wormworld/catalog.html

Worm World – provided the shirts that we wore for the workshop along with the worm castings samples, you can order Mary Appelhof’s Worms Eat Our Garbage & Worms Eat My Garbage books from his site.  (Don’t forget to mention our workshop!)

http://www.downtoearthfarm.com/info.html

Down to Earth Farm – worm bin compost information

http://vermitechnology.com/index.html

VermiTechnology Unlimited – a Florida resource for worms and supplies

http://cfyn.ifas.ufl.edu/compost.html

Florida Yards & Neighborhoods:  Composting

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/flash/worm/

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet:  Worm World – a great interactive site for kids to learn about worms and composting with Wendell the Worm as you guide.

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/education/squirm/skworm.html

Natural Resources Conservation Service:  Ask the Answer Worm! – Soil information

http://www.wormdrivemusical.com/

Worm Drive the Musical – agricultural, educational, musical masterpiece

http://www.wormdigest.org/

Worm Digest – great digest and even more fantastic links to worms in education

 

 

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