Worm Away Newsletter
"The early bird gets the worm ... the
early worm gets eaten." - Norman Ralph Augustine
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Vol. 4, Issue 5 |
- Climate Spark
- 2011 Back to School
- Upcoming Events
- Funding Info
- Did you know?
- Christmas Specials
- In the News
- Featured - Business
- Featured Video
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What kind of worm do you use for math? An inch worm.
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| Something new in Networking
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Connections Green Connections is now incorporated as a Non-for-profit organization. Next meetings:
*This is our holiday potluck gathering. We will be having a mini trade show. Guests are invited to attend to learn about sustainability and perhaps do some holiday shopping. Support local, green business! This meeting will be hosted by specail guest: Jacquie Hermans of Light'n UP. Transformation through the power of Laughter & Play.
Guests always welcome. |
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Are you an avid gardener? Start your worm composter NOW to have worm castings ready for spring planting. |
Zombie Worms
Traces of bone-eating "zombie worms" have been found in a three-million-year-old fossil from Italy, say researchers. |
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"Fossils of worms are really rare. We don't know a lot about their fossil record because they're soft animals," Nicholas Higgs |
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How fast do worms reproduce? Worms have an incredible reproductive rate. So one of the most common questions we get at workshops is "How many worms can one worm produce in one year". |
In answer to this question Cathy gives the following formula and asks the students to work out the answer. To date we have never received a response, until now ... Formula: |
| If you start with 500 mature worms (1/2 lb.) and there is a 0% mortality rate and every worm mates every 7 days and there is 5 worms in each egg and eggs take 3 weeks to hatch and worms take 10 weeks to mature after a year there would be 19,360,538 mature worms and 256,277,958 immature worms or worms in eggs for a total of 275,638,496 worms in total. Benjamin F. (Student) Thanks Benjamin, now we know. |
Random PicturesHanging around at the Markham Fair.
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| What do worms leave round their baths? The scum of the earth.
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| Featured Video Solar bottle lights in the Philippines |
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| So what do you think about the Worm-Away Newsletter? Have we wormed our way into your heart? We are looking for input for upcoming newsletters. Send us your comments, suggestions, stories and pictures. Please let us know of any wormy topics you would like to see covered here.
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Please tell us what you think. |
| Hi Cathy, First of all, on behalf of all the students, I wanted to thank you for the DVD. We received it in the Thursday p.m. mail. The DVD began circulating each class on Friday and we are playing clips on the school TV screen that students watch as they come in from the recess yard. It will be great for our Grade 3s as they work through their science unit. We are all waiting with baited breath to see if one of our worm names makes it to the "best of the best" list - 2 of the Grade 5 students are working on making vote slips for every student - and I know the Grade 2s are waiting to see the name votes so they can create a bar graph in mathematics. You have truly opened the doors to real-life learning. Thank you so much, |
Update: Our Vermicomposting Toronto bid has made it into the second round. Yeah!!! Please take a moment to visit climatespark.ca/node/151 and leave your comments and remember to vote! Climate Spark - Ignite, Accelerate, Launch! |
Cathy's
Crawly Composters has accepted the challenge. A Vermicomposting
proposal was submitted to Climate Spark. The submission, entitled
"Vermicomposting Toronto" (see details 
Although
the proposal, which was based on the highly successful Surrey Place
Vermicomposting project, was submitted quite late in the process,
we have received a great amount of interest and support. A lot of
the comments suggest that it is high-time the worms made their presence
known in Toronto!
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Holiday SpecialsAre you looking for a unique gift? Consider a Vermicomposter.
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And the winner is ...Draw winner at Royal Botanical Gardens Workshop.
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Featured - Business
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It
was Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, that said
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” and yet
sadly many of our medical doctors receive less than 20 hours
of nutritional instruction throughout their entire education.
As more and more research is done it has become exceedingly
clear that what we eat and drink is absolutely foundational
to our health and well-being. This is why at Sprouting Goodness
it is our priority to provide you with the highest quality
products possible. We are committed to using only 100% organic
ingredients in all of our juices and raw foods and add no
preservatives or additives of any kind. We know how fundamental
healthy food is and we want to support you in your wellness
and in your healing.
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