Hundreds of class pets

above: Michell Mercure of East Bay Newspapers included Gordon’s worms in her coverage of Gordon’s partnership with Bootstrap Composting, and Green Dean Cush Gillen explained how Gordon's campuswide composting program aligned with Gordon’s lunch program, the school's sustainability initiatives and the role of food in the curriculum. That article is here and a pdf is here.

First grade classrooms got class pets last week. Hundreds of them!

Both classrooms now have worm bins filled with healthy red wrigglers who are eager to eat food scraps and process them into compost for Gordon’s gardens.

Students are in charge of feeding them, making sure the humidity in the bins is healthy, and harvesting fresh compost as the worms create it.

Scraps come from classroom snacks and from students’ homes, and the harvest will go directly into Gordon’s gardens where fresh produce will grow, allowing students to witness the full cycle as food waste is transformed into new edible goodies.

Along the way, they’ll make lots of long, thin, cute, wriggly new friends.