Pickin Peas, and I landed on my knees. Gonna eat all I want cause you can't catch me. So says the pesky rabbit from the book titled, Pickin Peas, a folktale retold by Margaret Read MacDonald. Luckily we haven't had any rabbits trying to get our peas. We did all the picking of the peas and then used them to make an Orange and Honey Pea Salad. Delicious!After we finished our salad, the food scraps were placed in the compost pile which just so happened to be the other topic of class. So much of our garbage can be composted instead of ending up in the landfill. Fruit and veggie scraps, paper bags, newspaper, grass clippings, tea bags, coffee grounds and filters, and even hair can all be thrown in the compost pile. Billions of microbes (worms too) breakdown the materials into a rich additive for soil. Although we could not see the workhorses of the compost pile, the microbes, we did dig in to spot all the other critters that make it their home. We turned the search into a game of Compost Bingo.
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