When we were digging in our Mud Kitchen we found lots of big juicy worms. Mrs McNee explained that worms are good for the soil as they “break it all up”.
We didn’t understand what she was saying so we invited the Local Authority Waste Management Department to bring their wormery to the nursery to show us. Joanna from Waste Management, explained that a wormery had a kitchen, a livingroom and a bathroom. The kitchen is on the top floor and we added chopped vegetables for the worms to eat. The livingroom is in the middle as this is where they bury themselves in the soil. The bathroom is on the bottom floor and they go there to cool down.
We learned that worms do not like to eat meat, crisps, sweets or animal poo!
We observed and cared for the worms for 1 week and now have a better understanding of how important they are to our soil.
