At Bella Mente Montessori Academy in Vista, the students care for live chickens, tend a vegetable garden and dig up stumps to make way for an orchard. They fertilize the beds with chicken manure, and ...

It doesn’t take a lot of time or investment to create worm bins filled with red wigglers that will break down food scraps ...

6 When the bottom of the compost is brown and crumbly, it is ready. They can dig it into the garden - your plants will be really pleased! This is a joint project for adults and children together.