"This illustrated guide is stuffed with facts both interesting and digestible to all ages. Can you name the essential nutrients in our soil or define bokashi? This book outlines the environmental cycles & creatures of decomposition and also acts as a how-to for setting up a basic compost pile. It answers the common questions "Is this compostable?" and "Why does my compost have flies?".
Start making use of your food scraps and paper waste, instead of sending them to landfills to create methane or recycling processing centers with enormous carbon footprints. Why get rid of your stuff when it can be turned into extremely valuable brown earth? (If you've ever tried to buy packaged compost, you'll know I mean monetarily valuable in addition to agriculturally valuable).
Read this compostable tome to your kids or classroom and get them excited about growing food, reducing waste and saving the world!"
Publisher Roost Books
Publication Date 2014-03-11
Section Gardening / All Staff Suggestions / Nonfiction Suggestions / Stephanie L.
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9781611801279
Set your family on the path to a planet-friendly lifestyle with this fun guide to compost--what it is, how to make it, how to maintain it. Includes games, stickers, and more! Teach your kids that composting is fun with this funky guide that takes you from the nitty-gritty of compost composition and care to Worms and Ladders, a fresh take on a traditional board game. Find out the rules for setting up your very own Worm Lovers' Society, learn all about the garden-to-plate cycle together, and get your family's feet firmly set on the road to a planet-friendly lifestyle. Includes information on both kitchen and garden composting.
