At John Paul II Collegiate, Rhea Good's functionally integrated class hosted a composting workshop in their room at school Nov. 17.
The facilitator, Tammy McCormick, is the environmental manager for the City of North Battleford. She is passionate about composting on a personal level, and she also promotes composting from her professional perspective.
Students and staff learned about a specific type of anaerobic composting called Bokashi. They had saved kitchen scraps for a week so they would be readyto start the first pail at the workshop.
The FI students and staff have always done composting in their room, but there has been a constant war against the fruit flies. The Bokashi method uses an inoculant to spread anaerobic microorganisms throughout the collection pail. There is no open air, therefore no fruit flies and no smell.
This workshop is another activity the program takes part in that has the goal of global stewardship. It follows, most recently, the community garden initiative, which involved JP II's industrial arts program.
