We used sifters to separate the worms from the vermicompost. The sifters were pretty big. It took 2 people to sift and to people to hold the bin.
We really liked having a worm bin in our classroom so Mr. Robie allowed us to adopt our very own bin!
We feed the worms about a quart of fruit and veggie scraps once a week for 8 weeks and then we let the worms eat for a month. Here are a few pics of our classroom bin.
Our worms are really an incentive for eating healthy snacks. We've been counting how many fruit and fresh veggie snacks our class eats at snack time. In March we ate 231 healthy snacks! That's 100 more than we ate in February!
