Children learn to farm worms

Te Uki Ou school worm farm.

This environment programme being taught to nine year old children to educate them on how earth worms can break down garden compost.
The type of worms the children are using are the composting worms that are normally known as the blue worm because they have distinctive marks on the top and bottom that are slight blue in colour. These worms can be found at the back of pig pens or where soil is very damp.
The composting worms have an identifying feature, when holding them up to sunlight they wriggle because they do not like sunlight and try to hide from it.
The children say if you come across worms like these you can be sure your composting bin is working very well.

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