Park City Composting Visit #2 (Composting Commenced!)
Posted by Joshua BartosiewiczThis week with Park City Composting, our 8th graders participated in the beginning process of starting the school’s compost pile! Students were able to get a first hand look at what kind of materials can be put into a compost pile; carbon sources (leafs, wood chips, sawdusts) were mixed in as the base of this concoction. Once the pile was mixed by the students, the compostable material (broccoli stalks, apples, egg shells, egg cartons, fruit rinds and peels) was also added then blended in. Our scholars wrote down some preliminary observations and data that will serve as the starting point (standard or datum) for our recordings and findings. We will continue to monitor (record data like temperature, etc) and modify the compost pile weekly; by the end of the school year we should have a fantastic baseline for the Unquowa composting program. It is exciting to announce that the Unquowa composting project has officially begun!
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