Teaching Children Green Living Skills: Composting
Composting is nature’s way of recycling, but humans can help nature by making compost out of organic household waste. Help a child appreciate the value of composting by teaching him about the various benefits of composting for plants.
Composting improves the texture of soil, creating a foundation for increased retention and circulation of nutrients, moisture and air. Composting improves soil structure, providing for better drainage and easier cultivation.
Composting by a child is a complementary opportunity to growing his own garden. But whether a child has a garden or not, composting provides a valuable lesson in reclaiming waste and putting it to good use. If there is
no garden in the household, compost can be used to maintain lawns, trees and shrubs.
With sandy soils, compost improves their ability to retain water and nutrients that would otherwise pass through the loose grains quickly. With clay soils, composting breaks up the clay, adding air spaces between them. These spaces not only provide air to the plants, they also improve drainage…
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Teaching a young child about composting awakens him or her to the wonders of nature and how recycling the natural way works. Not only does is bring that young mind closer to an appreciation of nature, it may also be a lesson in responsibility. He or she learns how to improve soil structure and return nutrients to the earth. As you hint, it can lead to an interest in gardening itself or simply the uptake and care of a lawn. It makes good sense to teach a child about composting.