- Author: Susana C. Bruzzone-Miller
Published on: June 25, 2019
Day 2-Land
The day begins with journaling and a farm nature walk. Along the way, campers encounter evidence or indicators that animals use and call the farm home. Today is about understanding the importance of open space, natural resources and waste management.
Americans throw away approximately 250 million tons of trash/year. That is 500,000,000,000 pounds of garbage! Yikes! How we dispose of our waste or garbage has an impact on our land. Campers learn to differentiate between trash, recycling and compost and continue weighing and charting their own camp waste. Worm composting or vermicomposting is an easy way to reduce some of our waste bound for a landfill and everyone is excited to build their personal worm bin to take home.

Land day farm nature walk

Farm nature walk

Evidence of life on the farm

Recycle Reuse Reduce

Waste watcher trash tracker updated each day

Learning about worm composting

Worm bin assembly line

Worms and more worms

Hands-on learning at its best

Worm bins to take home

Today's harvest, kale
Focus Area:
Environment
Focus Area Tags: Environment
Tags: 4-H Sustainable You! Summer Camp (11), 4-H youth development (20)
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