You would think that, but in this day of litigation, school officials are afraid to exercise common sense.
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We are on a roster with the coffee shop at a hospital. There's a Monday group, a Wednesday group & a Friday group. I'm in the Friday group and go every 4 weeks with my empty buckets (frosting buckets are free from the bakery department at the supermarket) and pick up the full buckets. The haul ranges from 2 to 4 buckets (with filters). Most times I use it for my home compost; this summer (and last) it's for the "coffee grounds heap" at school. Filters are torn up nice & small to decompose faster. If I get too much I just tip the coffee grounds straight onto the soil (removing the filters for later). They work OK for soil amendment, but do tons better after passing through the composting system.What ever it takes to keep the bureaucrats happy! Coffee grounds are wonderful. I would love to have a restaurant to keep me supplied. I bring them home from church when ever I get the chance. Today, I was poking around in the chicken run with a rake, just for the fun of seeing the black compost they are making. The run is 500 s.f. and I'm hard pressed to keep enough material in there. Time to get to work with the wheelbarrow.
Believe me, I've been actively campaigning for the change and am quite willing to go talk to the school officials and take along samples of the stages of composting. with samples from each of the three bins. You know they're imagining rats, rotting vegetables, stench, flies, and unsightly heaps, but our compost-making efforts can only be described as exemplary. You wouldn't even know that there was compost under the black plastic covers. And the officials didn't last year, until school got back after the summer and the principal noticed that we were actually composting (against the rules, naughty gardeners). I bagged up bin 2 to finish at home, and bagged up bin 3 to store since it was already finished. I left bin 1 to quietly mature until this spring and no-one made any comments. (The principal wasn't really too worried as she appreciates having the garden at the school, but she was technically the one in charge of making sure we obeyed the rules. When school is in session I do a lot of work with the students out in the garden and she appreciates that.) (And it's science-based.)It seems like a compost pile at schools would be a teaching tool. It is biology in action. It also teaches that some things considered garbage can be put to good use. You could teach the kids to monitor temperature, the different phases of decomposition, saftey, and many other things.
I would say, yep!Ah, a question for those who use compost thermometers to check the heat of their compost. I don't have a compost thermometer per se, but I do have an infrared thermometer (gun-shaped) which I use for demonstrating soil temperature. If I dig a hole in the compost heap, can I direct the infrared beam into the depths and get an accurate reading? (I can see where the beam is reaching.)
Penny
Quote:I would say, yep!Penny
I could test this for you if my infrared's target light hadn't gone kaput.
Quote:I would say, yep!Penny
I could test this for you if my infrared's target light hadn't gone kaput.
Quote:I would say, yep!Penny
I could test this for you if my infrared's target light hadn't gone kaput.
Quote:I would say, yep!Penny
I could test this for you if my infrared's target light hadn't gone kaput.
Quote:I would say, yep!Penny
I could test this for you if my infrared's target light hadn't gone kaput.