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Smashing Pumpkins: Compost Your Jack-O’-Lanterns

Pumpkins are smashed, and the aftermath is here! Now, what do I do?

Smashing pumpkins sounds fun, but the composting part may scare you!

Composting is not so spooky!

It’s actually a lot easier then you think, and the alternative?

Dumping the pumpkin in your trash bin, and adding more food waste to our landfills, encouraging more toxins into our air, ground, water — is wayyyspookier!

Written By Lindsey Fella Bery on October 27, 2019 in Health + Wellness

Halloween pumpkins are an excellent opportunity to explore composting!

Learning to compost at an early age creates a better chance that children will continue to do so as adults. Children who learn to conserve nature and help to reduce waste as part of their education are more likely to continue to make sustainable choices independently.

Composting is a sustainable and circular way to live.

Read full story…

https://indianapolis.citymomsblog.com/health-wellness/smashing-pumpkins-compost-your-jack-o-lanterns/

How To Compost In a Jar

A composting jar activity is a fun and cool experiment for kids to learn about compost and watch it in action. Kids love to watch and will learn first-hand that composting is very cool! A healthy compost has four elements: Nitrogen, Carbon, Water and Air.

Nitrogen (GREENS) Pumpkins, or any food waste!
Carbon (BROWNS) Cardboard, Leaves, Wood Chips, Branches

Directions for a Kids Compost Jar at home compost in a jar experiment:

Kids Compost Jar Experiment

How to care for you compost jar!

Compost In A Jar

November 15, 2017

Hi I am a Helping Ninja. Today we had a composting party. We learned about what composting is. And I knowI have a choice to not throw things in the garbage. And now I have my own compost in a jar.

Helping Ninja, Age 8, First Grade, Indiana Montessori Academy

0 Waste

Hi Im a Hellping Ninja and I just watched this video, https://youtu.be/nYDQcBQUDpw

It is about a girl who lives for 5 years with basically zero waste because it all fit into one jar. I couldn’t believe it. I think I can help by sharing this with my friends, they should watch it because after I watched the video I realized I can actually help by asking people to please use less pollution like the girl did. And, I could also just ask for people to start doing better things in the world and stop buying a bunch of things, and doing things like going all the way down to a town, to maybe Fishers and you live in Carmel Indiana and they have a farmers market right next to them. And say maybe you could even start trying to grow it. Or say they go all the way to the shopping mall and then they have to get all these things and packages when there are places you can buy used stuff and would cost less weight. Also, so you could compost the vines of the dead plants and other stuff you may have in a compost which would turn into a compost soil and then you can put it in soil again. And use it to then make new plants with that, so it’s basically reusing and recycling. Only buy things that you can resuse.

Helping Ninja, age 8, Carmel, IN