Let the breakdown of compostable materials begin! We assembled our Garden Gourmet composter, which was provided for us by generous donations through DonorsChoose.org, and began to fill it today. This excellent powerpoint presentation clearly shows what materials and what amounts are essential to efficient composting. We viewed and discussed this presentation last week, and some of our students really took it to heart, because they arrived at school today with bags bulging with table scraps.
We learned that you really can't just throw a bunch of table scraps into the composter and expect it to create healthy soil. To balance the "green" material--the fruit and vegetable peels and eggshells that the students brought in, we searched around campus for an equal amount of "brown" or dried material such as leaves, grass clippings and small branches. In no time at all, we had a good mixture in the Garden Gourmet, and needed only two more essentials to get things cooking--and few handfuls of organic soil, and a sprinkling of water. The soil contains microorganisms that will encourage decomposition.
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