Red worms, red wigglers or manure worms (Eisenia fetida).
What type of worms are recommended for composting?
100
A program offering free courses such as Resource Conservation 101, Composting Practices & Techniques, and Water Conservation to empower residents, employees and business owners in San Mateo County to practice and share sustainable practices.
What is the Recycleworks Volunteer Academy?
100
A soil with a balance of different-sized particles.
What is loam?
100
Fully decomposed and stable organic matter.
What is humus?
200
Cat & dog manures, dairy products, diseased plants, weeds gone to seed, ivy, pernicious weeds, meat, lard & oils, coal ashes, or poisonous plants.
What are materials that should not be composted at home?
200
Vegetable and fruit wastes, aged herbivore manures (but no meat or dairy since they can smell bad)
What is appropriate worm food?
200
Shiftboard
What is the forum for recording activities as a Recycleworks volunteer?
200
Nitty gritty and ribbon test
What are methods of determining soil texture?
200
70– 90 F.
What the mesophilic temperature range?
300
Type of materials to compost (food scraps and/or yard), space available, time and labor.
What are 4 factors to consider when choosing a composting system?
300
Bedding. Food. Worms. Bin. Water.
What are components of a worm bin?
300
Grasscycling, Reciclaje De Pasto O Zacate, Worm Composting, Fun Facts About Redworms, Wriggly Wranch Basics
What are brochures available from Recycleworks?
300
Living organisms, fresh organic residue, decomposing organic matter, and humus
What is the average number of eggs produced per red wiggler containing two to three baby worms?
400
Soil Saver and Wriggly Wranch.
What are two composting systems available for a discounted price from Recycleworks?
400
Construction, tiling, chemical treatment and compaction.
What are actions that damage urban soil?
400
30:1
What is the ideal C:N ratio of a compost pile?
500
Fresh grass clippings, manures, food scraps, and urine.
What are materials with low C:N ratios (high nitrogen)?
500
Cone, Divide and Dine, Dump and Dine, Collander
What are four methods of harvesting worm castings?
500
(1) Use disruptive body language, (2) come unprepared, (3) talk too long before a break, (4) not involve people, and (5) talk too softly for people to hear. (6) eat, (7) turn back to audience
What are things to avoid doing during a presentation?
500
The property of groups of soil particles that bind to each other more strongly than to adjacent particles
What is aggregation?
500
Small white, brown or red creatures that feed primarily
on yeasts in fermenting masses or organic debris.