Our district’s composter (left) is made from an old cement truck.   It was named “Gertie”- short for the regurgitator, by one of our staff members in a district-wide contest. Gertie is able to hold a year’s worth of food waste from the Junior/Senior high cafeteria.  In the fall it is emptied and we receive about 6 cubic yards of compost from would be food waste.

Finished compost has been used in biology classes, horticulture classes, in test gardens, to fertilize shrubbery on the school grounds.  Sweet peas (right) and Sunflowers (below) thrive in the amended soil.