This document provides information about worms and how they help with composting. It discusses worms' anatomy and how they breathe, move, and eat without teeth. Worms help soil by breaking down organic matter and leaving behind valuable fertilizer. The document also explains how to set up a worm bin for composting food waste, including needing a bin, bedding, food, and worms. Worms can break down food scraps and turn them into nutrient-rich compost.
10. How Worms Move
?I squeeze some muscles to make myself long
?Then I grip with my little hairs
?And use other muscles to pull my behind along
11. Worm Breath Through Their Skin!
?Worms do not have lungs but I breathe through my skin.
?I take in oxygen through my skin and it goes right into my
bloodstream.
?My skin must stay wet in order for me to breath, but if I am
in too much water I will drown.
12. Worms Like the Dark
?I can tell the difference between light and dark . . . pretty good for
someone who does not have eyes.
?I have cells in the front part of my body that are sensitive to light.
13. Worms Eat Without Teeth!
?As I eat my food some grains of sand and soil get into my
gizzard.
?The sand and soil grind the food into tiny pieces
14. Worm Menu
?Meat brings dogs
and maggots.
?Lemon and Oranges
make Herman sick
?Herman has to suck
his food – make it
soft and chopped
up
15. Worm are Good for the Garden
? Worms help to increase
the amount of air and
water that gets into the
soil.
? They break down organic
matter, like leaves and
grass into things that
plants can use.
? When they eat, they leave
behind castings that are a
very valuable type of
fertilizer.
16. Worm Composting
?The worms are kept in a bin with shredded wet
paper.
?You feed them food waste.
?They digest the waste and bedding then make
worm poo
?After a few months, the poo combined with the
well-decomposed bedding, becomes garden food
17. Make a Worm Bin
To start you'll need four things:
1. A bin for your worms
2. Supply of biodegradable bedding
– newspaper
3. Supply of food waste
4. Worms, of course.
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