Partnership between Gwinnett schools and Food Well Alliance teaching students how to turn food waste into gardening compost - Gwinnett Daily Post
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Kermit The Frog was right, in a sense. It really isn’t easy to be green, or rather it’s not easy to go green.
It requires hard work. It takes the mixing of different types of materials. You have to use pitchforks to dig into, lift and turn over decomposing materials. There are “greens,” which is organic material such as vegetables and fruits as well as “browns” such as wood chips, pine straw, leaves, plain white paper that does not have colored ink on it and shredded cardboard.
It also requires months of patience — as much as a year of patience in fact, depending on how much compost is needed.
Oh, and there’s a formula involved in determining what to put in the composting pile.
“If you put in one green, you have to put in twice as many browns because if you don’t have the browns, it’s going to be way harder for the stuff to decompose,” said Arleana Donatien, 11, who worked on a composting at Lovin Elementary School in Lawrenceville this past spring as a fifth-grader.
