Our science kit touched on recycling this week, and composting came up.
The kids understood the concept and wanted to see it in action.
We aren't left with much to compost. Between the chickens, goats, horses, and dogs, we just don't have many scraps left to bury. So we made a mini compost and set out to see it work.
So first we picked items that we thought would breakdown:
pepper, peach slice, cabbage, potato chip, lettuce
and ones we figured would not:
Plastic bread tab, saran, and plastic label, soda tab.
and put the organic matter on one side and the man mades on the other.
We buried them in our dirt
Time to search!
After dumping our contents,
we found all of the manmade's and only a decomposing cabbage leaf, part of a lettuce, and a nasty bit of peach.
It got us on the topic of worms.
Might gonna have to...