Green Futures –Waste, Worms and Wellbeing

Climate Action Wendover’s (CLAW) key aims include increasing local biodiversity and reducing waste. This affects us all but, especially our young people who will live with future environmental challenges. Funded by Wendover Community Board, we’re running a number of workshops in local youth groups and schools called “Green Futures”. We’ve been working with the local cubs groups and John Hampden Infant School, with plans to work with the Junior and Secondary schools too. Delivered through Learning Without Walls, we’ve focused on soil health and food waste in a fun way, through worm poo!

The food waste paradoxThe food system accounts for up to a quarter of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but one third of food is wasted and millions of people are affected by hunger worldwide! Did you know that a quarter of the earth’s biodiversity is found in the soil?

In our wormery workshops at John Hampden School, students learnt that food waste often ends up in landfill where it rots and emits the very potent GHG methane into the atmosphere. Alongside this they discovered how we can only grow healthy food if we have healthy soil.

They got their hands dirty searching for those essential soil savers – worms! We investigated a large wormery where tiger worms were helping to turn food waste into organic matter, and they made their own wormery to investigate the burrowing activities of Earth Worms. They now have their own wormery, where the whole school can help turn their food waste into vermicompost to feed their allotment!

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