The Vermicomposting Cycle

• Building a bin
• Preparing the bedding
• Adding the worms
• Adding the food waste
• Harvesting the castings
• Fertilizing the garden
• Growing vegetables
• Eating the vegetables
• Feeding vegetable waste to the worm

Azocar, Facundo

Blasi, Facundo

De la Mota Boehler, Horacio

What I like and what I don't like

I like:

• Tea bags
• Vegetables
• Cereals
• Fruit peelings
• Crushed egg shells
• Grass

I don’t like:

• Ice – cream
• Oil
• Cheese
• Chicken
• Lemon
• Pizza
• Butter
  

Do you like games?

Find the things worms like and don't like. There are eleven things.

Paula Beamonte, Julieta Swedzky, Josefina Gei, Luciana Finola

Some questions and answers about worms

1. Where do worms come from?
   From europe.
2. What is the best type of worm for doing worm composting?
   Red and californian worms.
3. How long do worms live in a worm composting bin?
   Between 10 and 15 years.

Giorgio Abbonizio - Pedro Vidart

The Anatomy of a Worm

Worms do not have the same organisms as we do. We have a brain, eyes, legs, ears, arms, neck, lungs, shoulders, and nose, but worms do not. Another difference is that we have one heart and worms have five. The last difference is that since worms do not have eyes, they need something to find their way, so they use photoreceptors that sense light.

Maria Black - Francisca Cignetti - M.Emilia Volpacchio

Did you know that…?

• A worm has five hearts?
  They have five hearts! All of these hearts pump blood through their blood vessels just like your one heart.
  
• A worm doesn’t have eyes?
  Even though worms don’t have eyes, they can sense light, especially at their anterior (front end). They don’t like light!!
  
• A worm has both, male and female organ?
  Worms are hermaphrodites. Each worm has both male and female organs. Worms mate by joining their clitella (swollen area near the head of a mature worm) and exchanging sperm.
  
• A worm can grow only so long?
  A Lumbricus terrestris will be from 90-300 millimeters long.

Clementina Sesin, Rocio Caramuti, Pia Reinero y Luciana Travaglia