Welcome to the Worm Café

ACCESS students are operating the Worm Café, but don't plan to come here for coffee and a donut! The only creatures enjoying a snack here are the thousands of worms being raised in order to produce an organic fertilizer called Don's T.

Ms. Lindy (pictured above) is the speech therapist working with Ms. Kelly's class. This duo teams up to run the Worm Café. Students in Ms. Kelly's class are rewarded for good behavior and good character with participation in the process of feeding the worms.

Students with the most worms on the good behavior chart get special jobs! The "delivery boys" go to Kroger with Ms. Lindy to pick up out-of date products. "The chef" is the student who prepares the food for the worms – tearing the lettuce and cutting bananas, apples and other produce. Food that is not appropriate for the worms goes into the compost pile. Then, "the waiter" serves the worms their food. In order to keep the odors of the decomposing produce to a minimum, the waiter covers the food with leaf mulch and moistens it.

These three jobs are very important; participating students are recognized as Employees of the Day, and their pictures are displayed in the Worm Café.

Don's T is available for sale at the seasonal ACCESS Gardens plant sales. learn more>