Worm juice is just one of the wonderful things that will come out of the Springside College gardening program this year.
Two worm farms were donated to the school last week so pupils will be able to collect fertiliser for the garden, where year 3 and 4 pupils have been toiling away since earlier this year.
Fruits and vegetables from the garden are harvested and sold as part of the school’s Spade and Spoon program.
Springside College garden specialist Jayne Pizzo said the program provided pupils insight into food.
“We have created our own kitchen and garden program where the students learn to produce organically grown produce,” Ms Pizzo said.
“The students grow all the produce from seedlings. They then plant the seedlings in the vegetable garden beds and lovingly tend to them. The produce from the garden is then used in the kitchen where students make delicious foods that are sold at our once monthly Spade and Spoon market.”
Students had also built a greenhouse from recycled plastic bottles so seedlings will develop more efficiently, Ms Pizzo said.
“The juice collected from the worm farms is an amazing fertiliser and will be used to fertilise our vegetable garden beds, olive grove and orchard,” she said.
“Any excess worm juice will be sold at the Spade and Spoon market. We currently use the fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen to make compost, but in the future we will also be able to feed them to the worms.”
